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Just say no to broken JSON

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11 hours ago

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11 hours ago

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> {"key": "value\nda"}

> My convention is that \n is the one-byte ASCII control character linefeed. This JSON is not valid.

How is this not valid?

11 hours ago

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Daniel seems to be pretty confused on this one. All examples produce the correct error response.

11 hours ago

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That confused me too, apparently it needs to be "\\n".