Array editing or Validate JSON string?

[prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org]

Bob,
Tnx for the info. However, isn’t it reasonable that the LC conversion should respond with some indication that it can’t do the JSON to array conversion, rather than throw a script error?

Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Nov 18, 2018, at 6:18 AM, bob--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Livecode provides a text editor to, well, edit text. It does not understand the syntax/grammar of languages (Livecode, HTML, Javascript, JSON, YML, etc). What you need is an editor that “knows" JSON. 
> 
> Your best bet is to copy the text into Sublime, Visual Studio Code or Atom which do understand JSON’s syntax/grammar. There may be some configuration to the tool you will need to do but you will get indications from these editors when you have malformed JSON.
> 
> - Bob Hall
> 
>> On Nov 17, 2018, at 6:39 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What I would like to do is get a dialog that the JSON wasn’t formed correctly. Of course, since I’m using it for my personal development of my app, I can know that it failed if I don’t get the answer dialog I put in after it. but, it seems a kludge. Shouldn’t there be some kind of an error result if the JSON is ill-formed?
> 
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