Can a JSON value contain a multiline string

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I am writing a JSON file which would be read by a Java program  The fragment is as follows          testCases             case 1                 scenario     this the case 1           result     this is a very long line which is not easily readble                    so i would like to write it in multiple lines                    but  i do NOT require any new lines in the output                    I need to split the string value in this input file only                    such that I don t require to slide the horizontal scroll again and again while verifying the correctness of the statements                    the prev line  I have shown  without splitting just to give a feel of my problem

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Per the specification  the JSON grammar s char production can take the following values   any-Unicode-character-except- quot -or- -or-control-character   quot         b  f  n  r  t  u four-hex-digits  Newlines are  quot control characters quot   so no  you may not have a literal newline within your string  However  you may encode it using whatever combination of  n and  r you require  The JSONLint tool confirms that your JSON is invalid   And  if you want to write newlines inside your JSON syntax without actually including newlines in the data  then you re doubly out of luck  While JSON is intended to be human-friendly to a degree  it is still data and you re trying to apply arbitrary formatting to that data  That is absolutely not what JSON is about

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As I could understand the question is not about how pass a string with control symbols using json but how to store and restore json in file where you can split a string with editor control symbols   If you want to store multiline string in a file then your file will not store the valid json object  But if you use your json files in your program only  then you can store the data as you wanted and remove all newlines from file manually each time you load it to your program and then pass to json parser   Or  alternatively  which would be better  you can have your json data source files where you edit a sting as you want and then remove all new lines with some utility to the valid json file which your program will use

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Not pretty good solution  but you can try the hjson tool  It allows you to write text multi-lined in editor and then converts it to the proper valid JSON format  Note  it adds   n  characters for the new lines  but you can simply delete them in any text editor with the  quot Replace all   quot  function

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I m not sure of your exact requirement but one possible solution to improve  readability  is to store it as an array        testCases             case 1                 scenario     this the case 1           result      this is a very long line which is not easily readble                       so i would like to write it in multiple lines                       but  i do NOT require any new lines in the output                     The join in back again whenever required with   result join

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I believe it depends on what json interpreter you re using    in plain javascript you could use line terminators       testCases             case 1                 scenario     this the case 1           result     this is a very long line which is not easily readble                      so i would like to write it in multiple lines                      but  i do NOT require any new lines in the output

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