>On 22/08/2018 11:51 PM, Charles Mills wrote: >> *Personally* I agree, but different languages for different folks. Some p= >eople are very comfortable in assembler, especially with the structured mac= >ros. I think I can state with some confidence that if @EdJaffe need to pars= >e some JSON documents he would do it from assembler. >
>Maybe, but I'm not so sure. If that JSON is coming over the wire into a=20 >Java web application like EJES Web then I would expect it to be=20 >serialized to a byte array in the Java layer. That's how we do it. No=20 >JSON ever reaches the assembler layer in our stack. > > >> >> COBOL does not seem like a great choice either to me personally, but some= >>folks, and especially some shops, are most comfortable with COBOL. The JSON PARSE statement in COBOL is the keasiest way to parse JSON ever! You just point to a data item which contains your UTF-8 JSON text, and give the name of a COBOL data structure (group) that you want the values from the JSON Name/Value pairs top go into, and let COBOL do all the work for you! You do have to be up to the 2017 COBOL compiler level, since that is when we delivered JSON PARSE, in COBOL V6.2. Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
