Last year I needed a way to be able to parse JSON with comments (also known as JSONC). With that in mind I wrote the following short solution which will essentially remove JavaScript-style comments and trailing commas from the specified JSONC string and then the native JSON.parse() function will parse the remaining string:
Feel free to try this parseJSONC() function out yourself and let me know what you think. As always, happy coding! š
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PHP Snippet – parse_jsonc() – Chris West's Blog · June 8, 2022 at 12:00 AM
[…] few months ago I wrote a quick post showing how to parse JSONC (JSON with comments) files in JavaScript. Shortly thereafter I adapted […]