Selectors

Cotton utilizes selector from GJSON.

GJSON Playground

You can try GJSON online at https://gjson.dev/.

Quick Syntax

• Path separator with ..
• Wildcards (?, *) are supported.
• Characters excaping with \ then ., ?, and * are escaped as \., \? and \*.
• Getting array length with #, e.g. friends.# to get length of friends
• Getting nth element with .<index>, e.g. friends.0.age to get the first friend’s age.

For more detail, see GJSON Syntax.