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Show HN: Pretty print invalid JSON (or anything that looks sort of like JSON) (prettyprintplease.com)
9 points by jastr on Nov 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


It doesn't work too well wish some actual valid jsons:

Input:

{"somekey": "value", "someother": "value,value,value"}

Output:

{

  "somekey": "value",

  "someother": "value,

  value,

  value"
}

Seems like the problem is with commas being converted to ,\n regardelss of them being inside a valid string.


Saving this for later - was going to try to make something like this for when I get invalid json and have to spend a bit figuring out what is wrong.

Thanks


Hi HN! This was a python script I used on the command line for a while, before spending a weekend converting it to a microsite.

Pretty print json with single quotes or None or anything that looks like json, like python dictionaries/arrays or anything that PHP can spit out.


Good idea. Suggestion add some examples there so people can see what it looks like when you have broken data.




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