Hi Monks

I have 2 JSON files, better if I show the first. Two objects of it anyways:

[  
    {
        "externalId": "52787",
        "watchers": ["3348", "3639"]
    }, {
        "externalId": "52803",
        "watchers": ["2778"]
    }
]

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...and about 250.000 more of these.

The other JSON is a more complicated but it has objects with matching "externalId" keys. Meaning if there is an externalId in one JSON there is one in the other and vice versa, and no "watchers" is to find in the second JSON.

Basically what I want to achieve is to add the "watchers" array to its matching object in the second JSON. My powershell script looks like will take forever and a day, hence I'm looking for a perl script to do the trick.

To be more clear, the second - more complex - JSON is unfortunately missing the "watchers" data which is in a separate file and I'd like to combine the two files into one.

Thanks so much for the suggestions.

In reply to Combine 2 JSON files by gabecz

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