I'm looking for an effective way to extract data from a JSON feed in a nice perl parser to dump values into variables for use. Feeds are separated line by line instead of an over-encompassing array, so it's throwing me off. Here is an example: 
{
"1": {"subject1": "value", "subject2": [{"subject3": "value", "subject
+4": "value"}], "subject5": "value", "subject6": value, "subject7": "v
+alue"}, 
"2": {"subject1": "value", "subject2": [{"subject3": "value", "subject
+4": "value"}], "subject5": "value", "subject6": value, "subject7": "v
+alue"}, 
"3": {"subject1": "value", "subject2": [{"subject3": "value", "subject
+4": "value"}], "subject5": "value", "subject6": value, "subject7": "v
+alue"},

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etc.... (there is a lot more, ignore malformed JSON!) So instead of something that has an all encompassing array reference such as 
DATA [
"1": {"subject1": "value"}, 
"2": {"subject1": "value"}
]

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Which would be easy where I can identify each subject's value by a format similar to the one below, it is just separated essentially by unique numbers line by line from {} which are not detecting the array. My older code had said something along the lines of: 
    my $jsonoutput = "Above raw JSON format...";
    my $json = new JSON;
    my $jsontext = $json->allow_nonref->utf8->relaxed->escape_slash->l
+oose->allow_singlequote->allow_barekey->decode("$jsonoutput");
 
 foreach my $stuff(@{$json->{1}}){
      my %hash = ();
      $hash{subject1} = $stuff->{subject1};
}

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Doing this produces "Not an Array Reference". If I was to use "subject2" as oppsed to 1 from $json-> it does not error out, yet does not show subject 3, subject 4, etc's value.

In reply to Extract JSON data by omegaweaponZ

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