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+1. and the even more compact json format has no newlines at all unless they're embedded in a quoted string. which are, of course, two of the reasons why modifying json data with regexps is prone to failure - extremely fragile and vulnerable to even minor changes in the json being processed.

cas
– cas

2016-08-08 12:18:27 +00:00
Commented Aug 8, 2016 at 12:18
thanks, but it's not json, it's python dictionary.

Borys
– Borys

2016-08-12 12:13:16 +00:00
Commented Aug 12, 2016 at 12:13
@Borys Why not use Python then?

Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦

2016-08-12 12:14:26 +00:00
Commented Aug 12, 2016 at 12:14
I would love to, but I don't know the language and I'm working on code written by somebody else

Borys
– Borys

2016-08-12 12:18:01 +00:00
Commented Aug 12, 2016 at 12:18

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