NAME

json2perl.pl : convert JSON data to a Perl variable (dump) which can be parsed or eval'ed by any Perl script.

VERSION

Version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

    json2perl.pl -i "input.json" -o "output.pl" --no-escape-unicode --terse --no-indent

    json2perl.pl -e < "input.json" > "output.pl"

    # press CTRL-D when done typing JSON to STDIN
    # input must be less than 4K long!
    json2perl.pl

    # Read input from clipboard or write output to clipboard
    # Only in: Unix / Linux / OSX
    # (must have already installed xclip or xsel or pbpaste (on OSX))
    json2json.pl -e < $(xclip -o)
    json2json.pl -e < $(pbaste)
    # write the output to the clipboard for further pasting
    json2json.pl -i input.json | xclip -i
    # clicking mouse's middle-button will paste the result

USAGE

json2perl.pl

Options:

• --i filename : specify a filename which contains a JSON data structure.

• --I "string" : specify a string which contains a JSON data structure.

• --o outputfilename : specify the output filename to write the result to, which will be as a Perl variable, as a dump, which can be parsed or eval'ed from any Perl script.

• --escape-unicode : it will escape all unicode characters, and convert them to something like "\u0386". This is the default option.

• --no-escape-unicode : it will NOT escape unicode characters. Output will not contain "\u0386" or "\x{386}" but "α" (that's a greek alpha).

• --terse / --no-terse : Terse form of output (no $VAR1 for example). The second is the default option.

• --indent / --no-indent : do not use indentation. The first is the default option.

Input can be read from an input file (--i), from a string at the command line (--I) (properly quoted!), from STDIN (which also includes a file redirection json2perl.pl < inputfile.json > outputfile.perl

For more information see Data::Roundtrip.

CAVEATS

Under Unix/Linux, the maximum number of characters that can be read on a terminal is 4096. So, in reading-from-STDIN mode beware how much you type or how much you copy-paste onto the script. If it complains about malformed input then this is the case. The workaround is to type/paste onto a file and operate on that using --i afile or redirection < afile.

AUTHOR

Andreas Hadjiprocopis, <bliako at cpan.org> / <andreashad2 at gmail.com>