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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by rarepostinlurkr on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:07AM (#16909989)
Json is clearly data.

If awk cannot parse it, perhaps it’s a shortcoming of awk? =)

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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by Annatar on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:28AM (#16910373)
It’s not an AWK limitation; recursive descent parsers are non-trivial to implement and tricky to get right.
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