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Bug #57209 Tabs in Javascript strings break json_decode()
Submitted: 2006-08-30 16:31 UTC Modified: 2006-08-31 11:25 UTC
From: rasmus@php.net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: json (PECL)
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 [2006-08-30 16:31 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Description:
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print_r(json_decode('{ "abc": 12, "foo": "bar   bar" }'));

With a TAB between bar bar there doesn't work.  It works in the 1.1.x version before the rewrite, but breaks now in 1.2.1.

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 [2006-08-31 00:23 UTC] omar@php.net 
I don't think this is valid JSON as per the JSON spec.

(Using JSON_checker from: http://www.json.org/JSON_checker/)

[omar@xxx jc]$ cat tab.json 
{ "abc": 12, "foo": "bar        bar" }
[omar@xxx jc]$ ./JSON_checker tab.json 
tab.json syntax error at character 24

Since json_decode is based on JSON_checker, it'll just return NULL here due to the "invalid" JSON input.

I'm not sure whether this is right or wrong -- I'd have to ask Douglas.

Shouldn't the tab be a \t if encoded using json_encode?
 [2006-08-31 11:25 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Ok, the word from Douglas is that it is indeed illegal to have raw tabs there.  No bug here.
 
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