Prettyprint (or pretty-print) is the application of any of various stylistic formatting conventions to text, source code, markup, and other similar kinds of content. These formatting conventions usually consist of changes in positioning, spacing, color, contrast, size and similar modifications intended to make the content easier for people to view, read and understand.
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How can I pretty-print JSON in a shell script?
Is there a (Unix) shell script to format JSON in human-readable form?
Basically, I want it to transform the following:
{ "foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum" }
... into something like this:
{
"foo": "lorem",
"bar": "ipsum"
}
AnC
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pretty-print JSON using JavaScript
How can I display JSON in an easy-to-read (for human readers) format? I'm looking primarily for indentation and whitespace, with perhaps even colors / font-styles / etc.
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How to prettyprint a JSON file?
I have a JSON file that is a mess that I want to prettyprint. What's the easiest way to do this in Python?
I know PrettyPrint takes an "object", which I think can be a file, but I don't know how to pass a file in. Just using the filename doesn't…
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Is there a built-in function to print all the current properties and values of an object?
So what I'm looking for here is something like PHP's print_r function.
This is so I can debug my scripts by seeing what's the state of the object in question.
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How to "pretty" format JSON output in Ruby on Rails
I would like my JSON output in Ruby on Rails to be "pretty" or nicely formatted.
Right now, I call to_json and my JSON is all on one line. At times this can be difficult to see if there is a problem in the JSON output stream.
Is there way to…
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Pretty-Printing JSON with PHP
I'm building a PHP script that feeds JSON data to another script. My script builds data into a large associative array, and then outputs the data using json_encode. Here is an example script:
$data = array('a' => 'apple', 'b' => 'banana', 'c' =>…
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How to turn off the Eclipse code formatter for certain sections of Java code?
I've got some Java code with SQL statements written as Java strings (please no OR/M flamewars, the embedded SQL is what it is - not my decision).
I've broken the SQL statements semantically into several concatenated strings over several lines of…
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How to pretty print XML from Java?
I have a Java String that contains XML, with no line feeds or indentations. I would like to turn it into a String with nicely formatted XML. How do I do this?
String unformattedXml = "hello
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Pretty printing XML in Python
What is the best way (or are the various ways) to pretty print XML in Python?
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Javascript: How to generate formatted easy-to-read JSON straight from an object?
Possible Duplicate:
How can I beautify JSON programmatically?
I know how to generate JSON from an object using JSON.stringify, or in my case the handy jquery-json from google code (https://github.com/krinkle/jquery-json).
Now this works fine,…
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Pretty-print C++ STL containers
I would like to have a single template that once and for all takes care of pretty-printing all STL containers via operator<<. In pseudo code, I'm looking for something like this:
template
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How can I beautify JSON programmatically?
Do you know of any "JSON Beautifier" for JavaScript?
From
{"name":"Steve","surname":"Jobs","company":"Apple"}
To
{
"name" : "Steve",
"surname" : "Jobs",
"company" : "Apple"
}
Example
some_magic(jsonObj); // return beautified JSON
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How to pretty-print a numpy.array without scientific notation and with given precision?
I'm curious, whether there is any way to print formatted numpy.arrays, e.g., in a way similar to this:
x = 1.23456
print '%.3f' % x
If I want to print the numpy.array of floats, it prints several decimals, often in 'scientific' format, which is…
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Pretty-Print JSON in Java
I'm using json-simple and I need to pretty-print JSON data (make it more human readable).
I haven't been able to find this functionality within that library.
How is this commonly achieved?
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How can I pretty-print JSON using Go?
Does anyone know of a simple way to pretty-print JSON output in Go?
The stock http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/ package does not seem to include functionality for this (EDIT: it does, see accepted answer) and a quick google doesn't turn up…
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