Hi there monks,
I'm looking for a module on CPAN that can convert Javascript code snippets to JSON, apart from also doing the more common data-structure to JSON conversion. I've tried JSON::XS, ::Syck, ::PP and neither seem to be able to do this: 

my $data = { 
    age=>18, 
    handler=>\"function(){ alert('hello, worldly') }" 
};
my $json = encode_json( $data )

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And the output should look like this: 
{ age: 18, 
 handler: function(){ ... }
}

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But it usually converts it to: ...handler: "function(...)"

I know I've seen something that can do that somewhere. I think the usual implementation would use scalar references (ie \"function(){ }") to achieve this. But none of the regular JSON modules seem to accept it.

Any clues?
Thanks,
miguel

In reply to Javascript in your JSON by Anonymous Monk

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