Question: I have a simple values.yaml file which has below data:

```
images:
  tags:
    one: abc:v0.3-16-07
    two: xyz:ng-0.23.0
    pq: qaa:0df1e21e752b3d3.2020-04-27_1

```

Using 

```
yq -r --yaml-output ".images.tags" values.yaml

```

I can get below output

```
one: abc:v0.3-16-07
two: xyz:ng-0.23.0
pq: qaa:0df1e21e752b3d3.2020-04-27_1

```

But how can i get the values from the above?

Answer: 
You don't need to use `--yaml-output` flag, which tries to parse the output of the filter defined as a YAML entity. For getting the raw strings, use a filter in the JSON context itself

```
yq -r '.images.tags[]'

```
Found the answer, Inian kind of posted an answer but there was a small change

`yq -r '.images.tags | to_entries[].value | split(":")[0]' values.yaml`