Re: [Geojson] Question regarding RFC 7946

[Erik Wilde <[e-mail]>]

hello.

On 2019-03-18 10:06, Martin Daly wrote:
> You have no “FeatureCollection” object, and therefore no “features” 
> array. Your “properties” object does not have commas between consecutive 
> key/value pairs. That’s two problems to be going on with.
> 
> You can use jsonlint.com and geojsonlint.com to check your output, which 
> may give clearer errors than you have been getting.

tl;dr: always pick the right tool for the job.

martin is kind of right, but i think he's not going far enough. these 
JSON problems tell you that it's not such a great idea to edit JSON via 
regexes. to understand why, here's is the greatest answer ever about why 
regex as a tool is limited in its applicability to complex data:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454

i'd highly recommend to parse the JSON using a JSON parser of your 
choice (you'll find one in any programming language), do your 
transformation magic on the parse tree, and then serialize the result.

you will find this to be much more robust, extensible, and predictable, 
even though it may seem like a bit of overkill in the beginning.

cheers,

dret.

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