JSON decoding, instead of 2 index on table. Shown nothing

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Json Code:

{
"TotalDonation" : 0,
"RecentDonator" : []
}

Hello Developers!
im confused on what’s wrong with my script. In here, I’m decoding the string json but instead of this

it did it like this

. the TotalDonation and the RecentDonator doesn’t exist or nil.

Check the count of table:

Output: 0 (Expected = 2)

Script Error:

Line script:

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Value from:

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Table from

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JSON Format

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raw

local function updateRecent()
	if _GData:GetAsync(game.GameId..'--key') then
		print(tostring(_GData:GetAsync(game.GameId..'--key')))
		local LUAU_Data = HttpService:JSONDecode(tostring(_GData:GetAsync(game.GameId..'--key')))
		warn(#LUAU_Data)
		print(LUAU_Data)
		for _, players in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
			for index, value in pairs(LUAU_Data) do
				local __D = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage').DonatorTemplate:Clone()
				__D.Parent = players:WaitForChild('PlayerGui'):WaitForChild('ScreenGui').Frame.Leaderstats.RecentDonator
				__D.Raised.Text = value
				__D.Username.Text = index
			end
		end
	end
end

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if my explanation is not quite accurate, you can ask me so you could further look for more details. (i feel like that my explanation is bad that’s why i put this here)

[bitsplicer]

The JSON should start and end with brackets not curly brackets

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well, do you know how to fix this?

[be_nj (benjj)]

Bracket string syntax is only two brackets, though in this case it looks like you’re trying to scope the string because you’re already using brackets.

Instead of adding a third bracket, you want to scope it by adding an equal sign.

local JSON = [=[
text goes here
]=]

When using this syntax, you terminate the string you just need to make sure you have the same number of equal signs as the start and end:

local JSON = [[
this also works with 0 equals
]]

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{
"TotalDonation" : 0,
"RecentDonator" : []
}

this json returns 0 because it decodes as a dictionary. In Lua, the # operator will only be able to count array values.

To get a count of a dictionary, you can iterate over the keys like so:

local function count(dictionary)
    local sum = 0
    for key in pairs(dictionary) do
        sum += 1
    end
    return sum
end

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it works, but do you know how to fix this?

it seems like there’s values in the index

But it gave me nil at here

nvm. i instead use or replace 2 with the index name