How to parse a file with a multiple JSONs in PHP(Laravel)?

Question

I have input file that looks something like this:

{"name": "foo"}{"name": "bar"}

How to parse that?

Answer 1

If you're sure, that the individual JSONs are valid, you can try to transform it into an array of JSON objects, like this:

$data = '{"name": "foo"}{"name": "bar"}';

$data = str_replace('}{', '},{', $data);
$data = '[' . $data . ']';

// Now it's valid
// [{"name": "foo"},{"name": "bar"}]

Since }{ is always invalid in JSON, it's safe to say, that it won't affect your data.