# Get multiple elements from named tuples
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** namedtuple
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614 "2022-11-01T14:11:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@johnbb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnbb)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614/1 "2022-11-01T14:11:17Z")
Why does the following not work for named tuples?
```julia
x = (a=1, b=2, c=3)
x[1:2]
x[[1,2]]
```
With unnamed tuples like `x = (1, 2, 3)` it works fine. Tested with Julia 1.8.2.
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### Author:  [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614/2 "2022-11-01T15:29:20Z")
My initial reaction is that named tuples are indexed by name, not by index, so `x[1:2]` doesn’t make sense. But we _do_ allow indexing into a named tuple by a single index:
```julia
julia> x = (a=1, b=2, c=3)
(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3)
julia> x[1]
1
```
so I agree it’s surprising that we don’t allow you to supply multiple indices.
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### Author:  [@johnbb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnbb)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614/3 "2022-11-01T15:41:28Z")
Good point. `x[[:a, :b]]` works. I guess my expectations are inherited from two decades with R where one can use both types of indexing, at least for lists, arrays and data frames.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614/4 "2022-11-01T16:10:18Z")
The keys and values from named tuple `x` are accessible separately with such indexing:
```julia
values(x)[1:2]
keys(x)[1:2]
```
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### Author:  [@johnbb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnbb)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-multiple-elements-from-named-tuples/89614/5 "2022-11-02T11:26:37Z")
… and from this
```julia
julia> x[keys(x)[1:2]]
(a = 1, b = 2)
```