JSON Parser

Very useful tool, works as described. Thank you for simplifying parsing web API returned data.

This version cannot deal with JSON file with empty elements. Try http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23393 instead(also faster).

Works well, despite being a bit slow. Maybe it could be sped up with careful application of "regular expressions." Also, when you use the script, make sure the JSON string is a row vector of chars. Error may occur if string is a column vector of chars.

Thanks Joel,

just what I needed and it works fine.

I know that the code is slow, and I made no attempt to make the code fast, just correct. François's version does seem to be faster, so if you need speed (and have a lot of strings), use his.

Hallo Joel,

thanks for the work!

I'm trying to query the Chruchbase API and it seems to work fine. However, it takes ages for some queries to get parsed, e.g. I quit

companies=parse_json(urlread('http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/companies.js'));

after 1 hour. The profiler says that

json(1) = []; in parse_json>parse_string
json(1) = []; in parse_json>parse_object

make up about 90 % of the computational cost. Is there some easy way around this?

Best,
Patrick

Good work!
BTW - Any reason why it only return 4 value object from google? Is it because of the ajax api?

Thanks,

port