json.parse(jsonString)

Description

This function is utilized convert a JSON string to a Lua table.

Parameters

• jsonString – a string of data in JSON format

Return

Returns a table containing the information from the JSON string

Examples

-- Read the data from an existing text file containing json data from C:\myjsondata.json

-- Function will return a lua table containing the data

function ReadData()

    local f = io.open("C:\\myjsondata.json", "rb")

    if f then

        return json.parse(f:read("*all"))

    else

        return nil

    end

end