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Show HN: Pretty print invalid JSON (or anything that looks sort of like JSON)

by jastr on 11/10/21, 9:56 PM with 4 comments

• by savy91 on 11/11/21, 10:28 AM

  It doesn't work too well wish some actual valid jsons:

  Input:

  {"somekey": "value", "someother": "value,value,value"}

  Output:

  {

    "somekey": "value",
  
    "someother": "value,
  
    value,
  
    value"
  

  }

  Seems like the problem is with commas being converted to ,\n regardelss of them being inside a valid string.

• by shmoogy on 11/11/21, 3:28 AM

  Saving this for later - was going to try to make something like this for when I get invalid json and have to spend a bit figuring out what is wrong.

  Thanks

• by jastr on 11/10/21, 10:07 PM

  Hi HN! This was a python script I used on the command line for a while, before spending a weekend converting it to a microsite.

  Pretty print json with single quotes or None or anything that looks like json, like python dictionaries/arrays or anything that PHP can spit out.

• by eduardosasso on 11/11/21, 4:32 AM

  Good idea. Suggestion add some examples there so people can see what it looks like when you have broken data.