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Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 15

extract element from an array

Hi I asked the similar question before: I have a large JSON file but the information I need is only small part of it. However, that part is a two dimensional array from "text"."size" part.Is any way I can loop each array and and get the number from what I have already?

{"widget": { "debug": "on", "window": { "title": "Sample Konfabulator Widget", "name": "main_window", "width": 500, "height": 500 }, "image": { "src": "Images/Sun.png", "name": "sun1", "hOffset": 250, "vOffset": 250, "alignment": "center" }, "text": { "data": "Click Here", "size": [[0,1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8,9],[10,11,12,13,14]], "style": "bold", "name": "text1", "hOffset": 250, "vOffset": 100, "alignment": "center", "onMouseUp": "sun1.opacity = (sun1.opacity / 100) * 90;" } } }

I was taught from someone(thank you!) to use the following code

Option Explicit
Public Sub GetInfo()
    Dim strJSON As String, json As Object, rowNumber As Long
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Const PATH As String = "C:\Users\User\Desktop\test.JSON"
    strJSON = GetJSONFromFile(PATH)
    Set json = JsonConverter.ParseJson(strJSON)
    Set json = json("widget")("text")
    Dim key As Variant
    With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
        For Each key In json
            rowNumber = rowNumber + 1
            .Cells(rowNumber, 1) = key
            .Cells(rowNumber, 2) = json(key)
        Next key
    End With
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Many Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (1)

QHarr
QHarr

Reputation: 84465

Seeing expected output would help. If you are simply after the items within the collection of collections returned by JsonConverter.ParseJson(strJSON)("widget")("text")("size") then the following will empty them.

Option Explicit
Public Sub GetInfo()
    Dim strJSON As String, json As Object, rowNumber As Long, i As Long, j As Long
    Const PATH As String = "C:\Users\User\Desktop\test.JSON"
    strJSON = GetJSONFromFile(PATH)
    Set json = JsonConverter.ParseJson(strJSON)("widget")("text")("size") '<collection of collections

    With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
        For i = 1 To json.Count
            For j = 1 To json(i).Count
                rowNumber = rowNumber + 1
                .Cells(rowNumber, 1) = json(i)(j)
            Next
        Next
    End With
End Sub
Public Function GetJSONFromFile(ByVal PATH As String) As String
    Dim fso As Object, f As Object, outputString As String

    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(PATH)

    Do Until f.AtEndOfStream
        outputString = f.ReadAll()
    Loop
    f.Close

    GetJSONFromFile = outputString
End Function

JSON structure:

You can see the path down to the collection of collections in the JSON structure below. The {} are dictionaries and the [] are collections.

Upvotes: 1

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