Question

I’m particularly interested in the following features:

• possibility of modifying the
  serialized array using regular
  expressions or other simple methods,
• being able to parse the string using
  standard tools in various programming
  languages,
• serialization of simple arrays as well as associative arrays (objects),
• conciseness and human
  readability,

I’ve been looking into JSON, url-encoding, Rison, what do you think?

Answer 1

JSON is quite versatile, allowing for basic objects, arrays and primitives (no classes though) as well as nested objects/arrays, and it’s very well supported in many programming languages.