Parsing JSON in Erlang

Question

I have a piece of JSON string, which I want to parse in Erlang. It looks like:

({ id1 : [\"str1\", \"str2\", \"str3\"], id2 : [\"str4\", \"str5\"]})

Answer 1

Your input is not quite JSON -- the keys need to be quoted, like this:

{ "id1" : ["str1", "str2", "str3"], "id2" : ["str4", "str5"]}

A good Erlang library for manipulating JSON is jsx