Why not support for single quote string?

[ysmood]

I expect hjson

a: 'test'

to represent

{
  "a": "test"
}

But I only get

{
  "a": "'test'"
}

If you don't want to break the spec, please add an option to enable it.

[laktak]

You can do this with DSF as long as you use a new line for each value:

var Hjson=require("hjson");

var sampleText=`
{
  test: 'single quoted string'
}
`;

var sq={
  name: "singleQuotes",
  parse: function (value) {
    if (/^'.*'$/.test(value))
      return value.substr(1, value.length-2);
  },
  stringify: function (value) {},
};

var res=Hjson.parse(sampleText, { dsf: [ sq ] });
console.log(res.test);

[ysmood]

That's great. Thanks!

[leviwheatcroft]

@laktak in #65 you explained the reluctance to include single quotes, which is fine. But I think this should be mentioned somewhere, particularly in your javascript readme.. because it seems to me like a problem that people will inevitably run into. hjson is for humans to use, and javascript type humans are used to using quotes and apostrophe's interchangeably.

As an example... I've been staring at this error for a few hours

hint: 'found '}' in a string value, your mistake could be with:\n > 'fill' }\n (unquoted strings contain everything up to the next line!)' }

I thought the problem was that the string being parsed had been escaped somehow, but only now I realise that the problem is the use of single quotes.

[laktak]

@leviwheatcroft you should see a better error message online/with 2.4.2.

[laktak]

@ysmood @leviwheatcroft this is now supported in 3.0.0.