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Improve "Cannot index ...." error #419

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nicowilliams opened this issue Jun 16, 2014 · 0 comments
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Improve "Cannot index ...." error #419

nicowilliams opened this issue Jun 16, 2014 · 0 comments
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This error:

jq: error: Cannot index array with string

happens easily when using expressions like .a when . is an array, which can happen if the used forgets an extra .[]. Perhaps we should change that to something that might help the user?

One possibility would be to include the string, if it's short.
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