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Of course. You can do it in a single pass/just parse the token stream. There are various implementations like: https://zserge.com/jsmn/ https://zserge.com/jsmn/

• andrepd 1y ago
  It requires manual allocation of an array of tokens. So it needs a backing "stack vector" of sorts. And what about escapes?
  • int_19h 1y ago
    For escapes you can mutate the raw buffer with data in place, since a single escape always expands to fewer characters than the escape itself.