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Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes

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moogyd@yahoo.co.uk schreef:
> Hi,
> I need to define some configuration in a file that will be manually created.
> Internally, the data will be stored as a dict, which contains various properties related to a design
> e.g. Design Name, dependencies, lists of files (and associated libraries).
> json seemed a quick an easy way of achieving this
> Anyway, in simple terms my question - if I know everything is a string, how can I omit the quotation marks?
> 
> The problem is that I don't want to make users have to type redundant characters.
> Is it possible?

Not in JSON. Maybe you could try YAML?

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Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes moogyd@yahoo.co.uk - 2012-10-12 07:09 -0700
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 16:14 +0200
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2012-10-12 19:27 +0200
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2012-10-12 13:52 -0400
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-12 20:03 -0400
    Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 20:30 -0700
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes moogyd@yahoo.co.uk - 2012-10-14 22:48 -0700

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