Chapter 5
Text, JSON, and CSV
Process UTF-8 text, regular expressions, and structured data.
JSON pipelines
read_text(path("users.json"))
|> parse_json
|> get("users")
|> stream
|> where { user -> user.active == true }
|> collect
|> encode_json({ pretty: true })
|> save_text(path("active-users.json"))The strict JSON parser rejects duplicate keys, invalid Unicode surrogates, and non-finite numbers. Map encoding remains deterministic.
Text and CSV
- contains, starts_with, ends_with, trim, split, join, replace, lower, and upper
- PCRE2 regex literals and named captures
- Streaming CSV records with header, delimiter, and quote options
- Strings always validate UTF-8 and may contain embedded U+0000
