Re^2: Perl structure to Javacript-ready JSON

Well, Jeppe already knew about JSON since he's using it already. And there are other modules that do the same thing (JSON::DWIM will work the same on blessed or not blessed objects for exemple). But as far as I understand the issue here is to escape some chars (the single quote at least apparently) in strings. And unlike Data::Dump, JSON doesn't seem to provide a call back to allow custom output for any data type (objects can have a method to convert themselves to JSON, but here the strings are not blessed).

Jeppe, wouldn't s/'/\\'/g; on the output JSON be enough?

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Re^3: Perl structure to Javacript-ready JSON by LanX (Saint) on Nov 25, 2014 at 16:00 UTC
OK, right, sorry. My fault was that I read it as `JSON` has a bug in escaping quotes! ( JS - contrary to Perl - doesn't give single and double quotes different meanings, but that doesn't mean they need to be escaped, so no bug! ) so whats happening here is that Jeppe wants the data altered, and IMHO this should already be done on Perl's side before escaping. Your suggestion of a general `s/'/\\'/g` would only work if the JSON output doesn't use single quotes as delimiter.š Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)} update š) ah sorry, I didn't know that single quotations are invalid in JSON from JSON::PP `allow_singlequote $json = $json->allow_singlequote([$enable]) If $enable is true (or missing), then "decode" will accept JSON + strings quoted by single quotations that are invalid JSON format.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl structure to Javacript-ready JSON by Eily (Monsignor) on Nov 25, 2014 at 16:12 UTC
And it would work if ' is the only char that has to be escaped, (I supposed it was to be able to embed the JSON output in other code, delimited by single quotes, but I don't know the full story, that's a bit XYish actually). hippo might have given a better answer than mine.	[reply]
Re^5: Perl structure to Javacript-ready JSON by LanX (Saint) on Nov 25, 2014 at 16:45 UTC
my guess is rather a stupid parser on the other side using `["']` synonymously. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply] [d/l]

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