> I presume the dots are escaped/quoted properly, and you would do the same in your grep/awk usage. Oh yeah, that's certainly much easier than having a tool's

> I presume the dots are escaped/quoted properly, and you would do the same in your grep/awk usage. Oh yeah, that's certainly much easier than having a tool's parser deal with the syntax, and just working with individual keys and values instead. So much so that in fifteen years of programming I haven't seen anyone remember to include escape-sequences in their regexps. But I guess for true lovers of regexps it's just a joy to keep escaping the escape sequences that they put in, and then escaping the result once over in the coding language of choice. > What if your keys contain equal signs and curly braces, how will json help you out? Care to clarify why that would be a problem?