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Thanks for asking!

In the contact form, I have:

[select* your-coach class:cf7-field data:vccoach placeholder “Coach”]</label>

In functions.php, this is the corresponding part:

add_filter('wpcf7_form_tag_data_option', function($n, $options, $args) {
  if (in_array('vccoach', $options)){
    $coaches = getCoaches();
    return $coaches;
  }
  return $n;
}, 10, 3);

getCoaches() is a method that gets data from an external API endpoint.

In that method I construct a new array from the JSON output by the external API endpoint, consisting of ID’s and Names. In a foreach loop through the response, this code:

array_push($coaches, $coach['Id'] . '|' . $coach['Name']);

… builds an array that consists of entries like :
[“024|John Doe”,”026|Joan Does”, …]

But the result of this, is 024|John Doe and 062|Joan Does … as options in the contact form select field, so the Pipe character isn’t interpreted like it is in strings literals.

What am I missing? Thanks again for any help!