WordPress – Repeatable custom field values are outputted as a string and not an array

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I have a repeatable text field “show_on_pages”, I have created a new post of this content type and added 3 values for “show_on_pages”. When i run the code below 

$args = array('post_type' => 'my_post_type');
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
    $meta = get_post_meta(get_the_id(),'show_on_pages');
    print_r($meta);
endwhile;

It returns a string and not an array

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Array ( [0] => [“page1″,”page2″,”page3”] )

If I do 

echo $meta[0];

The page will print “[“page1″,”page2″,”page3″]”

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  1. You meta is stored as JSON.
    Do the following $pages=json_decode($meta[0]); and $pages will be an array which will look like this (from your example):

    Array
(
    [0] => page1
    [1] => page2
    [2] => page3
)

    Refer to this documentation for more info on json_decode function.

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