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6. JSON Data Values: Types of Data that JSON Supports

Wallace Jackson

(1)Lompoc, California, USA

You have looked at the two types of JSON data structures: one used to define objects, covered in Chapter 4; and the other used to define data arrays, covered in Chapter 5. This chapter discusses the different types of data values that can be supported in your JSON data-definition structures. Many types of data values are supported in computer programming languages, and JSON must work across most if not all of these to define data structures. Thus it must implicitly support all the core types of data values, such as numbers, characters, and booleans, as well ...

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