Re: Stripping a JSON of extra characters in PHP

[email protected] (The Doctor) writes:

> From https://developer.moneris.com/livedemo/checkout/preload_req/guide/dotnet
>
> I need a JSON as follows:
>
> {
> 	"store_id":"moneris",
> 	"api_token":"hurgle",

What you pasted as what you "need" is not even valid JSON and has a huge
number of pointless spaces in it making it almost unreadable (in my news
client).

> But in testng I am getting
>
> [{"store_id":"store3","api_token":"yesguy","checkout_id":"chkt23NGFtore3","txn_total":"126.00","environment":"qa","action":"preload"},[{"cart":[[[{"items":{"url":"https:\/\/www.pdsolutions.ca\/images\/newwhiteheader.png","description":"Agricultural Health Study","product_code":"AHS-1298","unit_cost":60,"quantity":"1"},"subtotal":60,"tax":{"amount":3,"description":"GST","rate":"0.05"}},{"items":{"url":"https:\/\/www.pdsolutions.ca\/images\/newwhiteheader.png","description":"Pesticide Applicator Records","product_code":"PAR-1302","unit_cost":60,"quantity":"1"},"subtotal":60,"tax":{"amount":3,"description":"GST","rate":"0.05"}}]]]}],[{"contact_details":{"first_name":"Dave","last_name":"Yadallee","email":"[email protected]","phone":"7809999999"}}],[{"billing_details":{"address_1":"","city":"","province":"","country":"CA","postal_code":""}}]]
>
> 	       How can I carefully strip unnecessary punctuation?

But that one is (a) valid and (b) has no  unnecessary punctuation, so I
don't know what it is you mean.

-- 
Ben.