JSON does not allow real line-breaks. You need to replace all the line breaks with \n. eg: “first line second line” can saved with: “first line\nsecond line” Note: for Python, this should be written as: “first line\\nsecond line” where \\ is for escaping the backslash, otherwise python will treat \n as the control character “new line”
This looks like JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). You can parse JSON that resides in some variable, e.g. json_string, like so: If you’re using an older Ruby, you may need to install the json gem. There are also other implementations of JSON for Ruby that may fit some use-cases better: YAJL C Bindings for Ruby JSON::Stream
Is it possible to have multi-line strings in JSON? It’s mostly for visual comfort so I suppose I can just turn word wrap on in my editor, but I’m just kinda curious. I’m writing some data files in JSON format and would like to have some really long string values split over multiple lines. Using … Read more
TL;DR You want this: Mappings The YAML equivalent of a JSON object is a mapping, which looks like these: Note that the first characters of the keys in a block mapping must be in the same column. To demonstrate: Sequences The equivalent of a JSON array in YAML is a sequence, which looks like either … Read more
Let’s evaluate the parsing of each: http://jsfiddle.net/brandonscript/Y2dGv/ The tl;dr here: The fragment in the json2 variable is the way the JSON spec indicates null should be represented. But as always, it depends on what you’re doing — sometimes the “right” way to do it doesn’t always work for your situation. Use your judgement and make an informed decision. JSON1 {} This returns an empty … Read more
http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/ http://www.digip.org/jansson/ Don’t really know how they compare for speed, but the first one looks like the right idea for scaling to really big JSON data, since it parses only a small chunk at a time so they don’t need to hold all the data in memory at once (This can be faster or slower … Read more
Pretty-printing is implemented natively in JSON.stringify(). The third argument enables pretty printing and sets the spacing to use: If you need syntax highlighting, you might use some regex magic like so: See in action here: jsfiddle Or a full snippet provided below: Show code snippet
Let’s evaluate the parsing of each: http://jsfiddle.net/brandonscript/Y2dGv/ The tl;dr here: The fragment in the json2 variable is the way the JSON spec indicates null should be represented. But as always, it depends on what you’re doing — sometimes the “right” way to do it doesn’t always work for your situation. Use your judgement and make an informed decision. JSON1 {} This returns an empty … Read more
I need to know the most efficient way of installing JQ on Mac (El Capitan). The code is downloaded to my Mac but I would like to know how I can install and operate it via the command line.
Technically YAML is a superset of JSON. This means that, in theory at least, a YAML parser can understand JSON, but not necessarily the other way around. See the official specs, in the section entitled “YAML: Relation to JSON”. In general, there are certain things I like about YAML that are not available in JSON. As @jdupont … Read more