Re^2: Contextual find and replace large config file

"... JSON doesn't support comments..."

It does if you treat them as data:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::Tiny qw(decode_json encode_json);
use Data::Dump;

my $conf = encode_json {
    foo     => qw(bar),
    nose    => qw(cuke),
    comment => qw(RTFM)
};

my $hash = decode_json($conf);

dd $hash;

__END__

{ comment => "RTFM", foo => "bar", nose => "cuke" }
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Best regards, Karl

«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

perl -MCrypt::CBC -E 'say Crypt::CBC->new(-key=>'kgb',-cipher=>"Blowfish")->decrypt_hex($ENV{KARL});'Help

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Re^3: Contextual find and replace large config file by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 03, 2019 at 17:41 UTC
Comments in most languages can appear anywhere where insignificant whitespace is possible. Your approach can't transform structures that comment both on the keys and values, as in `{ "name" /* represented as "shortname" in the DB / : "John Doe" / full name /,` [download] `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Contextual find and replace large config file by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jan 04, 2019 at 14:36 UTC
“...Your approach...“ Nobody is perfect. «The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe» `perl -MCrypt::CBC -E 'say Crypt::CBC->new(-key=>'kgb',-cipher=>"Blowfish")->decrypt_hex($ENV{KARL});'`Help	[reply] [d/l]