JSON::Whitespace(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation JSON::Whitespace(3)

JSON::Whitespace - Alter the insignificant whitespace of JSON

use JSON::Whitespace ':all';

my $in = <<EOF;
{
            "animals":{
                    "kingkong":"🦍"
            },
            "baka":[
                    "ドジ"
            ],
            "fruit":{
                    "grape":"🍇"
            },
            "moons":{
                    "🌑":0
            }
    }
EOF
my $minify = json_minify ($in);
print $minify;

This outputs

{"animals":{"kingkong":"🦍"},"baka":["ドジ"],"fruit":{"grape":"🍇"},"moons":{"🌑":0}}

This documents version 0.62 of JSON::Whitespace corresponding to git commit d04630086f6c92fea720cba4568faa0cbbdde5a6 https://github.com/benkasminbullock/JSON-Parse/commit/d04630086f6c92fea720cba4568faa0cbbdde5a6 released on Sat Jul 16 08:23:13 2022 +0900.

This module offers functions to manipulate the "insignificant whitespace" part of a JSON string (the whitespace which is not inside strings). According to the JSON specification "insignificant whitespace" consists of space (%x20), horizontal tab (%x09), line feed or new line (%x0A) and carriage return (%x0D).

my $indented = json_indent ($json);

Add indentation to $json.

my $minified = json_minify ($json);

Remove all whitespace, including trailing newlines, from $json.

Documentation about JSON is in JSON::Parse. JSON::Whitespace is based on JSON::Tokenize, which breaks JSON into tokens without putting it into Perl structures.

Ben Bullock, <bkb@cpan.org>

This package and associated files are copyright (C) 2016-2022 Ben Bullock.

You can use, copy, modify and redistribute this package and associated files under the Perl Artistic Licence or the GNU General Public Licence.

2024-09-01 perl v5.40.0