Hi Gang.

I just started w JSON. & I'm having a problem reading a simple? file.
I keep getting the error
"garbage after JSON object, at character offset 255 (before " "_id" : 1, "name" :...") at ./rd_students.pl line 12."

The json test file is .. 

{ "_id" : 0, "name" : "Betty Boop",
             "subjects" : [
                { "type" : "optional", "subject" : "Voice"},
                { "type" : "required", "subject" : "Math" },
                { "type" : "required", "subject" : "English" } ]
}
{ "_id" : 1, "name" : "Donald Duck",
             "subjects" : [
                { "type" : "optional", "subject" : "Accounting" },
                { "type" : "required", "subject" : "Math" },
                { "type" : "required", "subject" : "English" } ]
}

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The perl script.. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
use Perl6::Slurp;
my $file = 'test.json';

my $json = slurp $file;

$text = decode_json($json);
print  Dumper($text);

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