JSON.format(json) Last updated: 04. Jan 2023

Outputs specified JSON string to "prettified" indented JSON.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
json	string	JSON string to format.

Returns

Nothing, but writes text to output stream.

Example

Code example (#JS)

#JS is mixed HTML (or other text file) with inline JavaScript with # starting and ending each inline statement.

#{
    var object = {
        "Name" : "Abcd",
        "Number" : 1234
    };
    
    // Convert object to JSON string
    var json  = JSON.stringify(object);
    
    // Format indent and line breaks in JSON
    var pretty = JSON.format(json);
    
    // Remove empty lines
    var html = pretty.replace(chr(13), "");
    
    // Write HTML to output
    write(html);
}#

Output

The #JS code above produces the output shown below:

{
  "Name": "Abcd",
  "Number": 1234
}