B4P Reference

Function Names

variable to json

Description

This function loads JSON contents from a text string into a variable. This approach is useful if JSON text has been obtained from other sources, for example a table.

If the specified variable is existing then all contents will be deleted before the loading procedure starts. The members (and sub-members) will be built up while loading / reading in is in progress.

Call as: function

Restrictions

Indirect parameter passing is disabled

Parameter count

1, 3

Parameters

No.	Type	Description
1, etc. code	variable :string	Source variable name The contents will be loaded into this variable.
Opt. 2 input	string	JSON Format Following values are supported: JSON: Save JSON in nice format with every item in a separate line and text indentation used JSON compact: Save JSON in condensed format without indentation and line breaks in order reduce overall size but without loosing any data Default value: JSON

Return value

Type	Description
string	JSON contents Contains JSON text of saved variable

Examples

  a[] = Hello World;

  j[] = variable to json( a[] );

  echo("Simple variable in JSON: ", j[] );

  json to variable( b[], j[], JSON B4P );

  see(b[]);

Output

Simple variable in JSON: [ "Hello World"]
b[]                     Hello World                (quoted string,full access)

Try it yourself: Open LIB_Function_variable_to_json.b4p in B4P_Examples.zip. Decompress before use.

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