return an empty value without an error

[electriquo]

if i am not mistaken, in the past dasel did not fail when accessing properties that do not exist and was returning an empty value, which is not the case for dasel version 2.3.4. for instance:

$ echo '
foo:
  bar: baz
' | dasel -r yaml "foo.prop"
Error: could not access map index: property not found: prop

how can i make dasel return an empty value and not to fail when accessing non existing property?

[TomWright]

That was actually a bug stopping errors being displayed for select commands, although errors should we written to stderr with stdout being blank.

[electriquo]

thank for the information, but is there a way to make dasel return an empty value (e.g. nil) and not to fail when accessing non-existing property?

[TomWright]

You can follow the property name with a ? to allow dasel to continue without error: https://daseldocs.tomwright.me/functions/property#property-with-optional-field

[electriquo]

@TomWright Thanks you :)