JSON structure description

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data interchange format. Easy for people to read and write. It is also easy for machine parsing and generation. It is based on JavaScript programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 a subset of 3rd Edition-december 1999. JSON takes a completely language-independent text format, but also uses a similar idiom to the C language family (c, C + +, C #, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, etc.). These features make JSON an ideal data exchange language.

JSON is constructed in two structures:

A collection of name/value pairs (A collection of name/value pairs). In different languages, it is understood as objects (object), record (record), structure (struct), Dictionary (dictionary), hash table (hash table), keyed list (keyed list), or associative array (associative Array).
The sequence of values (an ordered list of values). In most languages, it is understood as an array (array).
These are common data structures. In fact, most of the modern computer languages support them in some form. This makes it possible for a data format to be exchanged between programming languages that are also based on these constructs.

The JSON has these forms:

An object is an unordered collection of "name/value pairs". An object starts with "{" (opening parenthesis) and "}" (the closing parenthesis) ends. Each "name" is followed by a ":" (colon); "' Name/value ' pair ' is separated by", "(comma).

An array is an ordered collection of values (value). An array begins with "[" (the left square bracket), and "]" (the right square bracket) ends. Use "," (comma) to separate values.

The value (value) can be a string enclosed in double quotation marks (string), a numeric value (number), True, false, NULL, an object, or an array. These structures can be nested.

A string is a collection of any number of Unicode characters surrounded by double quotation marks, escaped with a backslash. A character (character) is a separate string (character string).

A string is very similar to a C or Java string.

The value (number) is also very similar to the value of C or Java. Removes octal and hexadecimal formats that have not been used. Remove some coding details.

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JSON structure description