jq result iteration in bash

Hi i have this jq output from a CLI command

["test-KEY","test-PASSWORD"]

Assigned that output to a bash variable in this manner

secret_list=`mycli | jq`

I want to iterate though that output in bash & perform another CLI command on each item

so far i tried this block & is not coming desired command execution

echo "secrets_list: "$secrets_list

length=${#secrets_list[@]}
echo "Number of secrets $length"

for secret in "${secrets_list[@]}"
do
      echo "$secret"
done

Output is

secrets_list: ["test-KEY","test-PASSWORD"]
Number of secrets 1
["test-KEY","test-PASSWORD"]

my expectation is to iterate through that array. I am not sure what i am doing wrong. Thanks in advance for help

>Solution :

Bash arrays are not JSON arrays and JSON arrays are not bash arrays. If you none of your values contains new lines, you could use read in a loop:

mycli | jq -r '.[]' | while read -r secret; do
  echo "$secret"
done