Question

I have sth like that inside *.txt file.

function_name({"one": {"id": "id_for_one", "value": "value_for_one"}, ...});

And I am getting the file like this:

$source = 'FILE_NAME.txt';
$json = json_decode(file_get_contents($source),true);
echo $json['one']['value'];

It doesn’t work, but when I remove function_name( and ); it works.
How to parse it without removing these strings?

Answer 1

The function in your text file, means that isn’t a json file.

Remove the string using a regular expression, and your problem is fixed.

If the function is a fixed name, do something like this:

$source = 'FILE_NAME.txt';
$json_content = str_replace('function_name(', '', file_get_contents($source));
$json_content = substr($json_content,0,-2);
$json = json_decode($json_content,true);
echo $json['one']['value'];