Pass jq's input on the command line?

[StephenWall]

Is there a way to pass jq it's input data on the command line rather than in a file or stdin?
For example, if I have a shell variable data that contains {"name":"program","version":"1.2.3"}, I could use result=$(echo $data | jq -j '.name,"-",.version' to get my desired result of program-1.2.3. Is there a way to do this without the echo and the pipe?

[wader]

Yes, there is --argjson name value

$ jq -n --argjson data '{"name":"program","version":"1.2.3"}' '$data'
{
  "name": "program",
  "version": "1.2.3"
}
$ jq -n --argjson data '{"name":"program","version":"1.2.3"}' '$data.version'
"1.2.3"

[StephenWall]

Ah, I saw that [--argjson] in the man page, but couldn't get it to work. I needed the -n. jq -n -j --argjson data "$data" '$data.name,"-",$data.version' works nicely. Thank you.