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Probably my fault, retyping instead of cutting-and-pasting, and
having a Lua mindset. The JSON emitted by the page does have
commas.

2017-04-15 17:07 GMT+02:00 Charles Heywood <vandor2012@gmail.com>:
> Semicolons (;) are not a part of the JSON specification.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 09:21 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, this one satisfies the conditions. Unfortunately, it is
>> too strict for the JSON produced by the webpage. Example:
>>    [{"items":[];"date": "2017-04-15"}]
>> produces
>>    nil    Missing a comma or '}' after an object member. (12)
>> I'm not a JSON expert, so can't comment on the validity of the
>> original string, but I have no control over the webpage that
>> produces it.
>>
>> In the meantlime, by Murphy's Law, the PHP page has thrown up
>> an nested list, so the fallback decoder is now:
>>
>>  function json_decode (s)
>>     local function do_json_list(s,is_list)
>>       if is_list then s = s:sub(2,-2) end
>>       s = s:gsub("(%b[])()",do_json_list)
>>       if is_list then s = '{' .. s ..'}' end
>>       return s
>>     end
>>     local t = load('return
>> '..do_json_list(s):gsub('("[%w_-]-"):','[%1]='))
>>     if t then return t() else return s end
>>   end
>>
>> 2017-04-15 14:51 GMT+02:00 Xpol Wan <xpolife@gmail.com>:
>> > There is my binding to rapidjson: https://github.com/xpol/lua-rapidjson
>> > Or just luarocks install rapidjson
>> >
>> > 云风 Cloud Wu <cloudwu@gmail.com>于2017年4月15日 周六下午4:40写道:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>于2017年4月15日周六 上午5:45写道:
>> >>>
>> >>> I used to like lua-cjson but it does not sit well with Lua 5.3.
>> >>> Whenever a string could represent a number, it converts
>> >>> it to a float, so that every integer prints with a .0 at the end.
>> >>>
>> >>> Any recommendations for a module that works under Lua 5.3
>> >>> and does not have this annoying feature?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> You can use my fork :  https://github.com/cloudwu/lua-cjson
>> >>
>> >> My pull request : https://github.com/mpx/lua-cjson/pull/22
>>
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