Multiline strings in JSON

Question

Hi,

I'm writing some data files in JSON format and would like to have some really long string values split over multiple lines. Using python's JSON module I get a whole lot of errors, whether I use '\' or '\n' as an escape. Is it possible to have multi-line strings in JSON? It's mostly for visual comfort so I suppose I can just turn word wrap on in my editor, but I'm just kinda curious...

Answer 1

As you can see when you test JSON.stringify of JSON2.js, you can split a JSON string into multiple lines, indenting string : value pairs if you want.

On JSON.org are several Python libraries available.

Answer 2

JSON does not allowed real line-breaks, you need to replace all the line breaks into \n