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I recently came across this problem and was able to come up with a solution that should cater to all possibilities of array inputs.

What I mean by that is GitLab CI input arrays are a bit odd. They're a little like JSON arrays, except they allow values that aren't wrapped in quotes as well as those unquoted values having spaces. For example, the following is totally valid:

my_array_values:
  - value_1
  - "value 2"
  - value 3
  - "value 4"

This will cause $[[ inputs.my_array_values ]] to hold the following value:

'[value_1, "value 2", value 3, "value 4"]'

Hence, we can't use jq since it isn't valid JSON. You could enforce the use of "" wrapped values within your team / organisation and then use jq. However, if you want a more robust solution you could use this abomination I cooked up:

script:
  -|
   readarray -t tags < <(echo $[[ inputs.tags ]] |
     sed '
       s/[][]//g; # remove brackets
       s/,\s\+/,/g; # remove spaces after commas
       s/,/\n/g; # remove commas
       s/\"//g; # remove double quotes
       s/ /\\ /g; # escape spaces
     ' |
     xargs printf "%s\n")
   )
   for value in ${my_array_values[@]}; do
     echo "$value"
   done

If anyone that's good at bash has a better way of doing this please let me know

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