https://github.com/pmuellr/sloppy_json_parse

a parser for a sloppier kind of JSON
https://github.com/pmuellr/sloppy_json_parse

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a parser for a sloppier kind of JSON

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pmuellr/sloppy_json_parse
• Owner: pmuellr
• Created: 2010-08-03T21:43:39.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-08-03T22:02:36.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-09T21:04:47.758Z (10 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 93.8 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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`sloppy_json_parse` - a parser for a sloppier kind of JSON

========================================================

The function `sloppy_json_parse()` is a fork of the `json_parse()` function 

available at 

[http://www.json.org/json_parse.js](http://www.json.org/json_parse.js).  The

API for the two functions is the same, besides the format of the text that

they parse.

`sloppy_json_parse()` parses a language similar to JSON, but with these 

differences:

* commas are optional

* comments start with the '#' character and end with the end of the line

* strings which match the regex `/[$_A-Z][$\w]*/i` don't need to be quoted,

except that the strings "null", "true", and "false" must always be quoted.

The regex is the syntax of JavaScript identifiers.

Re-inspired by [CoffeeScript](http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#objects_and_arrays)

after [thinking about it](http://pmuellr.blogspot.com/2008/08/better-than-json.html) 

[for a short while](http://pmuellr.blogspot.com/2007/03/json-array-vulnerability.html).

examples

--------

----

### sloppy JSON ###

        [1 2 3 dogs cats]

### equivalent JSON ###

        [1, 2, 3, "dogs", "cats"]

----

### sloppy JSON ###

        {x:y z:a}

### equivalent JSON ###

        {"x":"y", "z":"a"}

----

### sloppy JSON ###

        {

            # some properties of the object

            a: z                             # z is a string!

            b: y                             # so is y

            c: [1 2 3]

            d: [                             # d is an array

                {

                    abc: true

                    def: false

                }                            # end of this inner object

                

                {

                    xyz: null

                    uvw: [101 202 303]       # weird numbers

                }

                

                [4 5 6]                      # last element

            ]

            # end of the properties

        }

### equivalent JSON ###

        {

            "a": "z",

            "b": "y",

            "c": [1, 2, 3],

            "d": [

                {

                    "abc": true,

                    "def": false

                },

                

                {

                    "xyz": null,

                    "uvw": [101, 202, 303]

                },

                

                [4, 5, 6]

            ]

        }