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ITHelpGuy
ITHelpGuy

Reputation: 1037

Illegal characters in path while reading json string in c#

I am working on reading a json sting in my C# code and run into the error "Illegal characters in path". I did a check on the json string if it adheres to the standards and no issue there. But, when I try to read this data in my code inexplicably run into this error. I'm using this to process my json string.

JSON:

[{
        "Id": 1,
        "FirstName": "Jason1",
        "LastName": "Test1",
        "Email": "[email protected]",
        "Eligible": true,
        "InsertLogtime": "2022-02-21T00:51:59.917",
        "Comment": null
    },
    {
        "Id": 2,
        "FirstName": "Jason2",
        "LastName": "Test2",
        "Email": "[email protected]",
        "Eligible": true,
        "InsertLogtime": "2022-02-21T00:51:59.917",
        "Comment": null
    }
]

C#:

string jstring = @"[{
        "Id": 1,
        "FirstName": "Jason1",
        "LastName": "Test1",
        "Email": "[email protected]",
        "Eligible": true,
        "InsertLogtime": "2022-02-21T00:51:59.917",
        "Comment": null
    },
    {
        "Id": 2,
        "FirstName": "Jason2",
        "LastName": "Test2",
        "Email": "[email protected]",
        "Eligible": true,
        "InsertLogtime": "2022-02-21T00:51:59.917",
        "Comment": null
    }
]";
        using (Stream stream = File.OpenRead(jstring))
        {
           
        }

Error:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1038

Answers (2)

pm100
pm100

Reputation: 50190

Your error has nothing to do with parsing json

File.OpenRead expects a file name. You have passed in a json string, this is not a valid file name, hence the error

You should parse the string directly

Upvotes: 3

Serge
Serge

Reputation: 43880

you can just parse your json string

using Newtonsoft.Json;

var jArray=JArray.Parse(jstring);

var firstName= (string) jArray[0]["FirstName"];

Upvotes: 0

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