Hello monks,
I want to convert a perl data structure into JSON.
For that, I need to convert an epoch datetime of milliseconds to JSON type. Following is the initial code.
Problem is that I want a single backslash with the boundaries of word "Date", but each time it gets converted to 2 backslashes.
Couldn't find any direct way to convert a date into JSON as we do with JSON::PP::true or other things. Quite confused with this. 
my $roundParams  = {
    'AllowParticipantsToSeeEachOther'                    => JSON::PP::
+true,
    'DurationInMinutes'                                  => 10,
    'MaxGamePegValue'                                    => 5,
    'MaxNumberOfCrackAttemptsPerCode'                    => 18,
    'MaxNumberOfCrackAttemptsPerTeam'                    => 0,
    'NumberOfDefaultHostParticipants'                    => 1,
    'NumberOfPegsInRound'                                => 4,
    'RoundStartTime'                                     => "\\/Date("
+ . $milliSeconds . ")\\/",
    'TimeBetweenRoundATimeBetweenRoundAttemptsInSeconds' => 10
};
say Dumper $roundParams;
say $roundParams->{'RoundStartTime'};
say to_json $roundParams;

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Output: 

{"AllowParticipantsToSeeEachOther":true,"TimeBetweenRoundATimeBetweenR
+oundAttemptsInSeconds":10,"NumberOfDefaultHostParticipants":1,"MaxNum
+berOfCrackAttemptsPerTeam":0,"RoundStartTime":"\\/Date(1401265928689)
+\\/","NumberOfPegsInRound":4,"DurationInMinutes":10,"MaxNumberOfCrack
+AttemptsPerCode":18,"MaxGamePegValue":5}

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Tried various things like eliminating one backslash for escape character, adding \e, using qq etc., but nothing worked out. Would be thankful if you could guide in that.

In reply to Json epoch datetime with perl by gurpreetsingh13

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