Trouble reading in a file

[bkamins]

This file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeffreylancaster/game-of-thrones/master/episode-character/episode-character.json does not load correctly with an error:

ERROR: ArgumentError: invalid JSON at byte position 1 while parsing type Any: InvalidChar

while JSON.jl reads it in without a problem.

[quinnj]

You need to pass a byte buffer or json string literal as the argument to JSON3.read, not a file name. To read a file, you can do JSON3.read(read(filename))

[bkamins]

Thank you! Right - sorry for mixing up things. A think to consider is making things more consistent across CSV.jl and JSON3.jl (as I just reused the pattern I expected to work without reading the documentation).