> About three years ago there was a thread on using json with ksh. This provided some pointers to libdss (and the dss wrapper). > > I've recently been doing some work on centos where a bit of builtin json processing would come in handy but I'm not so desperate yet: python has plenty of support for json if I really nee that level of integration. > > However, a similar question surfaced on Stackoverflow today, so perhaps it's time to revisit this theme: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16742136/ways-to-parse-json-using-kornshell > > So my question would be: What options are there for *builtin* json support? As json is quickly gaining traction as > a data-exchange format over xml, it would be nice to translate compounds to json and back.
In a nutshell, you write an extension and load it into ksh with the dynamic linker. I slightly prefer xml over json, but admittedly there isn't a big difference. I found this intriguing food for thought: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=77634
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