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johns on Oct 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebScript.io: Just choose a URL and type in a scri...

JSON does not have to have a dictionary at the root. You can have just an array.

smarx on Oct 31, 2012 [–]

Looks like you're right. From http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt:

"A JSON text is a serialized object or array."

Now I don't know why I thought this wasn't allowed.

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