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▲Just say no to broken JSON (lemire.me)
8 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 4 comments
chrisjj 16 hours ago [-]
> {"key": "value\nda"}

> My convention is that \n is the one-byte ASCII control character linefeed. This JSON is not valid.

How is this not valid?

rurban 15 hours ago [-]
Daniel seems to be pretty confused on this one. All examples produce the correct error response.
orangecat 15 hours ago [-]
That confused me too, apparently it needs to be "\\n".
chrisjj 1 hours ago [-]
/He/ may need it to be //n, but JSON does not. It is valid. https://jsonlint.com/ confirms.
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