ACF Repeater Field Value

I'm trying to access the first item of an Advanced Custom Fields Repeater field. I'm using [meta key="inline_testimonials" path="0.inline_testimonials_text"] (based on [meta key="mymeta" path="0.name"] as the documentation suggests) but this doesn't return the correct value (just returns a string of '1'). When I dump the field the array structure is as follows:

array(1) {
[0] =>
array(2) {
["inline_testimonials_text"] =>
string(198) "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris condimentum mauris quis turpis finibus, et gravida sapien ullamcorper. Nulla fringilla mi a rutrum elementum. Nunc augue leo, pretium."
["inline_testimonials_author"] =>
string(56) "Enter persons name, role in business and name of company"
}
}

Can you advise how I can access the value I need to display in my PDF?

Hi,

Can you please output here the result of [meta key="inline_testimonials"] inside "textarea" filed?

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Thank you for replying, I worked out the issue. I needed to use get_post_meta to obtain the correct meta key for the field rather than ACF's get_field() function.

Just a tip: you can output [meta key="value"] without path. If resulted string will be array - value will be serialized. You can easily unserialize it and get the correct path.

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