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Parsing JSON with PowerShell

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PaulHarrison
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Sep 20, 2021
Q: I try to parse my JSON with the handy dandy “ConvertFrom-JSON” cmdlet but it only works in PowerShell 7, not in my good old PowerShell 5.1.  How do I get it to work everywhere?    A: PS 7 pars...
Updated Sep 21, 2021
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Erik_Carlsson
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Mar 29, 2023

Yea, I don't get that regex to work. It replaces the multiple line comment but only the two slashes (//) in one-line comments.

 

I however do get the following to work:

"//.*|(?s)/\*.*?\*/"

 A oneliner for the whole thing should be:

$myJson = [regex]::Replace($(Get-Content $filename -Raw),"//.*|(?s)/\*.*?\*/","") | ConvertFrom-Json