G'day anautismobserver,

Decode (to a Perl data structure) using JSON. If you also have JSON::XS installed, it will run faster. You can use JSON::XS directly, but some users who maybe can't compile XS code will not be able to run your script. [See Update below]

Once you have the JSON data in a Perl format, getting the wanted values is pretty straightforward. See "perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook" if you don't know how to do this.

Update: I took "Below is code that returns a JSON object." on face value and, in line with the title, "decoding a JSON object", provided a generic response on how to achieve that. I think you can be forgiven for assuming a method called json() returns JSON; however, that's not the case — see ++1nickt's explanation.

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