get nested JSON data in jquery

Question

I have this JSON data:

[{"sequence":"503","accountnumber":"0001","telephonenumber":null,"emailaddress":"email@domain.com","directdebit":"Y","auto_directdebit":"","billing_address":{"title":"Mr","forename":"Joe","surname":" Bloggs","address1":"ADDR1","address2":"","address3":"","town":"TOWN","county":"COUNTY","postcode":"PC","country":"United Kingdom","default_invoice":"1","default_delivery":"1"}}]

And I use the following to retrieve the details:

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "/section/get_data?getCustomer=1&sequence=" + $("#customersequence").val(),
    data: $(this).serialize(),
    success: function(data) {
        alert(data[0].accountnumber);
    }
});

which works but i cannot figure out how to return billing_address

i have tried:

data[0].billing_address[0].address1

but that did not work

how can i retrieve each field under billing_address

`data[0].billing_address` is an *object* with property `address1`. — Felix Kling, Dec 04 '16 at 19:47
parse JSON, when it returns data, it is plain string not JSON object — Luminous_Dev, Dec 04 '16 at 19:47
@Luminous_Dev Technical note: JSON is the *plain text* representing a serialized object graph. JavaScript objects are not JSON. — user2864740, Dec 04 '16 at 19:48
@Luminous_Dev: Since the OP says that `alert(data[0].accountnumber);` works, we can assume that jQuery already parsed the JSON. — Felix Kling, Dec 04 '16 at 19:49
I recommend to review some [JavaScript data structure basics](http://eloquentjavascript.net/04_data.html). — Felix Kling, Dec 04 '16 at 19:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 04 '16 at 19:48

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you are almost there, the only thing is that billing_address is not an array... remove the try to get the element with [0] like

data[0].billing_address.address1

answered Dec 04 '16 at 19:48

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worked great - thank you. i'll accept the answer when it allows me to in 10 minutes :) – charlie Dec 04 '16 at 19:51
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