Turning a string into a table

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I’m having issues when using HTTP to get JSON data:

I requested the data and it returned a string like: “{“user1”, “user2”}”

How would I turn that into a table?

Edit: :JsonDecode() does nothing but spit an error

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Is that the exact string being output? The quotes look unusual but that could just be your computer auto-formatting them.

Next issue is that’s not valid JSON, JSON is key/value like

{
   "name": "user1",
   "userId": 12345
}

so if your string is more like an array, you’re better off just stripping the curly braces and performing a string.split like so

local function decode(data: string): {string}
    local withoutCurlys = data:sub(1, #data-1)
    local userTable = withoutCurlys:split(",")
    return userTable
end
3

the list is a json on github thats formatted like this

{
  ["usernames"]: {
    "username1",
    "username2"
  }
}

should i just reformat the json better?

4

Yeah that’s not quite correct. In JSON you can have an array but it has to be of key, value pairs.
I think based on what you’re looking at, it might be something like:

{
    [
        {
            "name" : "username1"
        },
        {
            "name" : "username2"
        }
    ]
}

That’s just a rough example, it can be simplified but should give you an idea. You can probably also find more about JSON nuances online but this might be a good start

5

alright thank you
i will try that later and see how it goes