Question

I have a very large Json file. It contains 27000 records.

a record looks like this:

    {
adlibJSON: {
recordList: {
record: [
{
@attributes: {
priref: "4372",
created: "2011-12-09T23:09:57",
modification: "2012-08-11T17:07:51",
selected: "False"
},
acquisition.date: [
"1954"
],
acquisition.method: [
"bruikleen"
],
association.person: [
"Backer, Bregitta"
],
association.subject: [
"heraldiek"
],
collection: [
"Backer, collectie"
], ... ...

The problem is that this is not valid Json. The quotes are missing for the names.

Like for example acquisition.date should be "acquisition.date":

I need to edit this big json file and add all the quotation marks, otherwise the file doesn’t parse with for example D3.js

What is the best way to repair this Json file?

Answer 1

I’d use a decent text editor with regex find and replace capability (e.g., Visual Studio, UltraEdit, etc.).

Then Do: find

^\s*(\w+\.\w+)\s*:

and replace with

"$1":

Or you could use powershell:

$allText = gc yourfile.txt
$allText -replace '^\s*(\w+\.\w+)\s*:', '"$1":'