support for comments

[yueswing07]

there is many situations need read configure file has annotation i have test the code

char *s = "{//aa \n \"list\":[{\"name\":\"22xiao hong\",\"age\":10},{\"name\":\"33hua hua\",\"age\":\"11\"}]}";  
    cJSON *root = cJSON_Parse(s);

parse return NULL

[FSMaxB]

Yes, JSON is kind of bad for configuration files because of this. This is why I personally prefer YAML for that, although it requires a much more complex parser.

I can't currently support comments in cJSON, but once #177 is implemented, it could be added as a configuration option.

[nemo20000]

As comments are not part of the JSON standard, this must be optional.

And if we’re listing ‘favourite configuration format that isn’t JSON’, mine is PSON – PostScript Object Notation (which does support comments!).

[FSMaxB]

As comments are not part of the JSON standard, this must be optional.

This would not be enabled by default of course

[mateosss]

Has there been any update on this topic?