Splitting a txtfile of JSONs into individual strings of JSON objects

Question

I have trouble using Regex to split a text file of JSON objects into string. The array of JSON objects are downloaded from an url and is meant to be processed by some javascript function. But I want to read them in C#. I have downloaded the file and just need to split it into individual JSON objects. The format of the text file is:

{......},{"S":...}

So I want to split it into a string[] so each JSON object is a string:

{"S":...}
{"S":...}
{"S":...}
{"S":...}

I want to leave out the comma that separates them in the original text file.

string[] jsons = Regext.Split(txtfile, "\{\"S\":");

But this doesn't work. How can I split it correctly?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13605667/c-sharp-json-parsing or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6620165/how-to-parse-json-in-c may help u — internals-in, Oct 27 '13 at 17:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '13 at 17:29

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You can use the JsonTextReader class provided by the Newtonsoft.JSON assembly (acquirable through NuGet).

answered Oct 27 '13 at 17:29

Konstantin Dinev

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Thanks. This is probably the correct answer and I will look into this. – Kasper Hansen Oct 27 '13 at 23:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 27 '13 at 17:31

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If you aren't aware already this is a great tool http://regexr.com?36u96

Try

string[] splits = Regex.Split(txtfile, @"(?<=\}),");

answered Oct 27 '13 at 17:31

Dharun

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It won't work if there's all sorts of characters in between, it's a starting point and works with his example. Can easily add \s* or .* to catch other characters. – Dharun Oct 27 '13 at 19:29

Splitting a txtfile of JSONs into individual strings of JSON objects

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