Well this JSON I have doesn’t work on PHP Json_decode, it returns NULL, and when I place the exact JSON in the website http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/#jsonformatter
it says its valid and it works just fine.
$json = <<<START
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START;
print_r(json_decode($json));
Thank you in advance
I escaped all single quotes with \’ and encapsulated it all with single quotes and it seems to work: