Are multi-line strings allowed in JSON?

Question

Is it possible to have multi-line strings in JSON?

It\'s mostly for visual comfort so I suppose I can just turn word wrap on in my editor, but I\'m just kinda curious

Answer 1

I have had to do this for a small Node.js project and found this work-around:

{
 "modify_head": [

  ""

 ],

 "modify_body": [

  "",
  ""

 ],
}

This looks quite neat to me, appart from that I have to use double quotes everywhere. Though otherwise, I could, perhaps, use YAML, but that has other pitfalls and is not supported natively. Once parsed, I just use myData.modify_head.join('\n') or myData.modify_head.join(), depending upon whether I want a line break after each string or not.