Repeatable field values are outputted as a string and not an array

Hi, I have a repeatable text field “show_on_pages”, I have created a new post of this content type and added 3 values for “show_on_pages”. When i run the code below

$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'my_post_type'
	);
	$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
	while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
		$meta = get_post_meta(get_the_id(),'show_on_pages');
		print_r($meta);
	endwhile;

It returns a string and not an array

Array ( [0] => [“page1″,”page2″,”page3”] )

If I do

echo $meta[0];

The page will print “[“page1″,”page2″,”page3″]”

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