access associative array

user1017268

I am using Code Igniter and I get following data structure after executing a query at DB

array
'application' => 
    array
    0 => 
        object(stdClass)[19]
        public 'app_id' => string '16' (length=2)
        public 'app_name' => string 'dddddddd' (length=8)
        public 'app_title' => string 'sdfsdf' (length=6)
        public 'app_comments' => string 'sdfsdf' (length=6)
        public 'active_flg' => string 'N' (length=1)

I know one way to access the values is

foreach($application as $key => $value)
    $value->app_id

But I know that I will get only one record each time so I want to access the elements without using foreach.
I have tried to $application->app_id and $application[‘app_id’] but I keep getting error.

Can anybody please help me to understand how to access the data directly??