Trouble with jsondecode() and jsonencode()

I have a JSON file. I am trying to test the MATLAB functions before using them. So I loaded it

str1 = fileread('json_filename1.json');

mydata1 = jsondecode(str1)

str2 = jsonencode(mydata1)

fid = fopen('json_filename2.json','wt')

fprintf(fid,str2)

fclose(fid)

Then I go to the online JSON file editor: https://jsoneditoronline.org/#left=local.jagoxe to load both files. I am able to load 'json_filename1.json' but I can't load 'json_filename2.json' correctly. I got the following error message:

Failed to switch to "tree" mode because of Invalid JSON:

Parse error on line 1:

...,"errorDescription":"CreateACPath Execut

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Expecting 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '[', got 'undefined'

It looks like either jsondecode() or jsonencode() has something wrong.

Also, when I used strcmp(str1,str2), I saw a lot of difference between them.

[the cyclist]

Can you upload the original JSON file here, so that we can test to see what is going on?

[Rui Zhang]

Hello,

Could you provide me your email address so I can send it to you by email? I don't want to post the JSON file here in a public place.

Thanks.

Rui

[the cyclist]

No, sorry.

But perhaps you could distill your JSON down to a simplified and/or obscured version that still shows the problem, but you are comfortable sharing? (This may also help narrow down exactly what is causing the issue.)

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

fprintf(fid,"%s",str2)

That way if there are format spec characters in the JSON they are not interpretted as such.

[Rui Zhang]

It works.

Thank you!

Rui

[Isaac Asher]

Awesome - I needed this to ensure that one of my fields in the JSON (a path to a file) got saved & loaded correctly. Otherwise it got messed up due to the slashes / escape characters.