Parsing JSON Files – Fastest possible way?

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Tomas. I think I got confused at some point with my answers. I just checked on my code and I use $.evalFile() to read the json’s. I remember doing some tests and that I used what was fastest. This is how I use it:

var alpha = $.evalFile(File("path/to/file/json.json"));

However, if you ever need to take the whole content of a file again, I suggest reading it with

var str = fileObj.read();

It reads the whole file in one go.

Here is a link with the description, page 53

JavaScript Tools Guide (macromedia.com)

I don’t think evalFile will work with the new expressions engine so maybe you will need to use the eval([string]) version if you want to use it in expressions.