How to format a JSON string as a table using jq?

Question

Just started out with Bash scripting and stumbled upon jq to work with JSON.

I need to transform a JSON string like below to a table for output in the terminal.

Answer 1

If the values don't contain spaces, this might be helpful:

read -r -a data <<<'name1 value1 name2 value2'

echo "name value"
echo "=========="

for ((i=0; i<${#data[@]}; i+=2)); do
  echo ${data[$i]} ${data[$((i+1))]}
done

Output

name value
==========
name1 value1
name2 value2