# Retrieving value from nested list?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-value-from-nested-list/22099>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 24, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-value-from-nested-list/22099 "2016-07-24T00:31:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anthony\_Cheng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anthony\_Cheng](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anthony_Cheng)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-value-from-nested-list/22099/1 "2016-07-24T00:31:45Z")

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Let’s say if I got this ugly debug output (nested list?), how about would I go to retrieve this value?

`ok: [127.0.0.1] => { "foo.stdout": [[ [ "bar"] ] ] }`

Tried:

`  
with\_items: “{{ foo.stdout }}”

with\_items: “{{ foo.stdout[0] }}”  
`

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-value-from-nested-list/22099/2 "2016-07-24T07:04:41Z")

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It's a list in a list in a list  
with\_items: "{{ foo.stdout[0][0] }}"