You could use one of the JSON readers that have a streaming capability rather than loading the entire thing into memory, such as JSON::Streaming::Reader. The code below is a quick try that works here, although I don't have any multi-meg JSON files handy. Have to provide routines for each element type read in the stream; the code below just has null subs for them but doing a $jsonr->skip instead would probably speed things up even more:

use IO::File;
use JSON::Streaming::Reader;

sub is_valid_json {
    my $fh = IO::File->new(shift, "r");
    my $jsonr = JSON::Streaming::Reader->for_stream($fh);
    my @ignore = map {($_, sub {})}
        qw(start_array end_array start_object add_string add_number
           add_boolean add_null end_object start_property end_property
+);
    eval {$jsonr->process_tokens(@ignore, error => sub {die "@_"})};
    return !$@;
}

print is_valid_json('file.json') ? 'ok' : 'panic';

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In reply to Re: Verify syntax of large JSON files by Loops
in thread Verify syntax of large JSON files by ron800

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