check-json-syntax

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check-json-syntax - Check the syntax of a JSON files

Nothing is more frustrating that having 6000 lines of JSON and running it in a program to just get the message "Syntax Error" out. No line number, no information. That seems to be the state of JSON most of the time. 30 years ago I used a Fortran 66 compiler that worked that way. It was incredibly irritating. This program is intended to fix this for JSON.

Check the syntax of a JSON file and report decent errors. This means output that shows where the syntax error is and sometimes includes suggestions on how to fix the error.

Usage

$ check-json-syntax File1.json File2.json

Options

-l Generate a listing with line numbers.

-p Pretty print the JSON if it is syntactically correct.

-D turn on debugging

-d compare two files for differences.

$ check-json-syntax -d file1.json file2.json

will check to see if they are different and report the differences to the output.

Tests

to run tests

$ make test

License

MIT