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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by dagw on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:41PM (#12799206)
what environment doesn't have that available?

Autocad LISP is the one I ran into. At least it didn't 4 years ago. I'm sure there are other niche cases.

Although I'll admit I punted and wrote a trivial 'parser' that was only able to read and write the particular JSON I was dealing with in that project.

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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by jlarocco on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:46PM (#12799791)
FWIW, if the need comes up again: https://github.com/mbeloshitsky/autolisp-json

Note it's only two years old, so wouldn't have helped last time ;-)

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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by ciupicri on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:50PM (#12799285)
Wouldn't be possible to write an external tool that converts JSON to s-expressions and vice-versa?
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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by dagw on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:55PM (#12799336)
Sure, but then you're just adding additional layers to what was supposed to a fairly straight forward script. Much easier to just include everything in a single program so you can just say give path to input json file here, give name of output file here, and run.
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