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Asked: 2026-06-04T09:16:06+00:00

Hi I’m a complete newbie to json. I’m trying to parse a json file

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Hi I’m a complete newbie to json. I’m trying to parse a json file into a web page just like explained in this thread………

Very basic JSON question

However my json file is a large list of contacts that are not in an array like ‘people’ in the above example. instead the first 6 lines of my json file are like the following.

{ "first_name": "Tom", "last_name": "Moore", "phone": "123456", "email": "tom@abc.ie" }
{ "first_name": "Fred", "last_name": "Power", "phone": "197412", "email": "fred@abc.ie" }
{ "first_name": "Ann", "last_name": "Doyle", "phone": "836547", "email": "ann@abc.ie" }
{ "first_name": "Phil", "last_name": "Jones", "phone": "927481", "email": "phil@abc.ie" }
{ "first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Ross", "phone": "993377", "email": "jane@abc.ie" }
{ "first_name": "Tom", "last_name": "Moore", "phone": "123456", "email": "tom@abc.ie" }

How can I loop through them to display like in the above thread? Many thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your json is invalid. It needs square brackets around the outside, and commas between items. It should be:

    [
    { "first_name": "Tom", "last_name": "Moore", "phone": "123456", "email": "tom@abc.ie" },
    { "first_name": "Fred", "last_name": "Power", "phone": "197412", "email": "fred@abc.ie" },
    { "first_name": "Ann", "last_name": "Doyle", "phone": "836547", "email": "ann@abc.ie" },
    { "first_name": "Phil", "last_name": "Jones", "phone": "927481", "email": "phil@abc.ie" },
    { "first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Ross", "phone": "993377", "email": "jane@abc.ie" },
    { "first_name": "Tom", "last_name": "Moore", "phone": "123456", "email": "tom@abc.ie" }
]

    $.getJSON handles the json parsing for you – just do:

    $.getJSON('/url/of/the/json/file', function(people) {
    alert(people[0].first_name)
});
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