What is the difference between YAML and JSON?

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

uncaught syntaxerror unexpected token U JSON

I get this error “uncaught syntaxerror unexpected token U” when I run my page in chrome. And in firefox I get, “JSON.parse: unexpected character”. I’m returning the json data from a php file and the returning json string is valid. I checked it with http://jsonlint.com/ . Any help would be appreciated… Thanks. Here’s the returned JSON string

Yahoo Finance All Currencies quote API Documentation

From the research that I’ve done, there doesn’t appear to be any documentation available for the API you’re using. Depending on the data you’re trying to get, I’d recommend using Yahoo’s YQL API for accessing Yahoo Finance (An example can be found here). Alternatively, you could try using this well documented way to get CSV data from … Read more

Can comments be used in JSON?

No. The JSON is data only, and if you include a comment, then it will be data too. You could have a designated data element called “_comment” (or something) that should be ignored by apps that use the JSON data. You would probably be better having the comment in the processes that generates/receives the JSON, … Read more