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This is the README for JSON::Parse version 0.49.

JSON::Parse is a "module" for the Perl computer programming language, a
library of computer code to install on a computer.  This document contains
four sections:

1. About - what the module does

2. Documentation - how to learn more about the module

3. Installation - how to install this module on a computer

4. Help - what to do if you get stuck

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1. ABOUT

JSON::Parse - Read JSON into a Perl variable

A module for parsing JSON. (JSON means "JavaScript Object Notation"
and it is specified in "RFC 7159".)

JSON::Parse offers the function "parse_json", which takes a string
containing JSON, and returns an equivalent Perl structure. It also
offers validation of JSON via "valid_json", which returns true or
false depending on whether the JSON is correct or not, and
"assert_valid_json", which produces a descriptive fatal error if the
JSON is invalid. A function "json_file_to_perl" reads JSON from a
file, and there is a safer version of "parse_json" called
"parse_json_safe" which doesn't throw exceptions.

For special cases of parsing, there are also methods "new" and
"run", which create a JSON parsing object and run it on text. See
"METHODS".

JSON::Parse accepts only UTF-8 as input. See "UTF-8 only" and
"Handling of Unicode".

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2. DOCUMENTATION

You can read the documentation for the module online at the following
websites:

    * http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?JSON::Parse
    * http://metacpan.org/release/JSON-Parse

(These links go to the latest version of the module.)

After installing the module, you can read the documentation on your
computer using

    perldoc JSON::Parse

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3. INSTALLATION

This module requires Perl version 5.8.9 or later.

To install the module from CPAN, use

    cpan JSON::Parse

If you have the App::cpanminus installer, you may prefer

    cpanm JSON::Parse

To install the module from the source file, JSON-Parse-0.49.tar.gz, follow
this sequence of commands:

    tar xfz JSON-Parse-0.49.tar.gz
    cd JSON-Parse-0.49
    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make install

If you want to test the module before installing it, use "make test" after
"make" and before "make install".

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4. HELP

To get help with the module, you can email the author, Ben Bullock, at
<bkb@cpan.org>. If you think there is a problem in the module, you can
report a bug at 

<https://github.com/benkasminbullock/JSON-Parse/issues>,

or if you want to alter the source code of JSON::Parse, try the public
repository on github at 

<https://github.com/benkasminbullock/JSON-Parse>. 

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This README was written on Sat Nov 26 15:48:36 2016.

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