# How to grab Array values from OPC address?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-grab-array-values-from-opc-address/36917>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, vision\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-grab-array-values-from-opc-address/36917 "2020-07-21T19:40:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmalec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@dmalec](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dmalec)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-grab-array-values-from-opc-address/36917/1 "2020-07-21T19:40:25Z")

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How do i grab an array from an OPC address directly?

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The above picture does not produce any good results, and ive also tried removing the :16 but the results to not change  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/a/cabc47812b5f842a487d61f49d51b648051e024b.png)

in the plc i have a value on each address/array element, and nothing shows up 😕

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-grab-array-values-from-opc-address/36917/2 "2020-07-21T19:48:15Z")

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The Modbus driver (and most of the others) doesn’t support addressing arrays. You’ll have to make a tag per element. The driver will optimize this away and just make one request, so no efficiency lost there.