Convert to JSON with comments from PowerShell
Here you have an example which can't be handled right by previous answers:
{
"url":"http://something" // note the double slash in URL
}
so here is regexp that solves also this problem.
$configFile = $configFile -replace '(?m)(?<=^([^"]|"[^"]*")*)//.*' -replace '(?ms)/\*.*?\*/'
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Powershell 6.0+ can load JSON with comments in it.
Remove comment lines from your input before the conversion:
(Get-Content $JsonName) -replace '^\s*//.*' | Out-String | ConvertFrom-Json
The solution in the other answer only removes // comments
if they are at the beginning of a line (with or without spaces), and doesn't remove /* multiline comments */
This code removes all kind of //
and /* multiline comments */
/
$configFile = (Get-Content path-to-jsonc-file -raw)
# Keep reading, for an improvement
# $configFile = $configFile -replace '(?m)\s*//.*?$' -replace '(?ms)/\*.*?\*/'
As @Jiří Herník indicates in his answer, this expression doesn't have into account the case of strings with comments inside it, for example "url": "http://mydomian.com"
. To handle this case:
$configFile = $configFile -replace '(?m)(?<=^([^"]|"[^"]*")*)//.*' -replace '(?ms)/\*.*?\*/'
for example removing the comments in this file:
{
// https://github.com/serilog/serilog-settings-configuration
"Serilog": {
"MinimumLevel": "Error", // Verbose, Debug, Information, Warning, Error or Fatal
"WriteTo": [
{
"Name": "File",
"Args": {
"path": "D:\\temp\\MyService\\log.txt",
"rollingInterval": "Day",
"outputTemplate": "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff zzz} [{Level:u3}] ({App}) ({Environment}) {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}"
}
},
{/*
"Name": "Seq",*/
"Args": {
"serverUrl": "http://localhost:5341"
}
}
]
}
}
results in:
{
"Serilog": {
"MinimumLevel": "Error",
"WriteTo": [
{
"Name": "File",
"Args": {
"path": "D:\\temp\\MyService\\log.txt",
"rollingInterval": "Day",
"outputTemplate": "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff zzz} [{Level:u3}] ({App}) ({Environment}) {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}"
}
} ,
{
"Args": {
"serverUrl": "http://localhost:5341"
}
}
]
}
}