YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) by sho on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:51PM (#17359098)

> objects can't have a trailing comma

This has caused me so much misery in the past, especially since none of the tools will tell you which line the offending comma is on. Great, somewhere in my thousand-plus-line JSON file is a tiny syntax error but you won't tell me where.

Ended up having to regex for them. Didn't do wonders for my trust in JS tooling.

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Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) by joobus on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:23PM (#17359919)

From the command line:

    python -m json.tool < somefile.json

This will tell you where your file is messed up.

There is also https://github.com/zaach/jsonlint

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Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) by sho on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:52PM (#17361716)

Thanks for the tip :)

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