On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:41:48 +0000, psychoticRabbit wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 15:26:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> dmd -X spits out the json file with a list of functions and classes and >> other stuff. Then you can just filter that. > > do you know why the first and last character of the output from "dmd -o- > -X somefile.d" are [ and ] with all the json inbetween. > > I'm don't really know json (never had a need to know) but as I try > different json parsers, the first thing I have to do (before giving it > to the json parser), is strip off the first and last character of that > output. > > so why put them there in the first place, is my question.
They form an array. `[1, 2, 3]` is an array of numbers, and `[{"a":1}, {"b":2}, {"c":3}]` is an array of objects.