Question

I have a very large JSON file with almost 30000 records.
One record looks something 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"
          ],
          "documentation.title": [
            "A lot of text with a lot of extra double quotes like "this" and "this""
          ] ... ...

The problem is that there are a lot of values with extra double quotes in it. This can be 1 double quote, but also 2 or 3 extra double quotes. See the value of "documentation.title" in my example.

How do i find all these quotes and replace them with regular expression.
I use sublime text 2 to do my regular expression, but i don’t know how to solve this specific problem.

Answer 1

Here are two examples:

These have the following requirements:

• Values do not start with a comma, a colon, a closing braces or a whitespace.

Otherwise you have to improve it. The second one even allows values to start with a whitespace, but may also have some other side-effects …

Example 1:

\"[A-Za-z0-9][^"]+\"\s*[^,:}\s]

Example 2:

\"([A-Za-z0-9\s][^"]+\"\s*[^,:\]}\s]){2}