return json output without square brakets

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I am returning the following through JSON:

$this->view->lead_query=$lead_query->fetchALL();
header('OK', true, 200);
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($this->view->lead_query);

I am getting the results in this format:
[{"client_name":"Steve Harris","state":"TX"}]

Now if the above output was displayed without the square brackets [] I can populate the values in my form correctly.
Is there a way i can return the output without the square brackets?

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PHP Code:

str_replace( array( '[', ']'), '', json_encode($this->view->lead_query)) 


the above worked for me

[devnull69]

Otherwise you could as well process the returned JSON in Javascript as an array rather than as an object.

You possibly tried

myobject.client_name

and you can do this instead

myobject[0].client_name