How to remove the special character that write_json is adding to the string in boost C++

Question

write_json is converting the string "test/123" as "test\/123". How to remove the special character (\) that write_json is adding to the string in boost C++

Thanks,

Answer 1

It's being escaped. It's valid JSON, so any JSON parser should be able to read it correctly.

Put bluntly, yours is not a problem. If you think it is, you're doing something wrong.

Other than that, please don't use Boost Property Tree as if it were a JSON library. It is not.

Boost 1.75 introduced Boost Json, which is.

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#include <boost/json.hpp>
#include <boost/json/src.hpp>
#include <iostream>
namespace json = boost::json;

int main() {
    {
        json::value s = "test/123";
        std::cout << json::serialize(s) << std::endl;
    }

    {
        auto s = json::parse(R"("test\/123")");
        std::cout << json::serialize(s) << std::endl;
    }
}

Prints

"test/123"
"test/123"