Record Jar Converter

Conversion tool for record jar formatted text to json.


Put your raft-phillips-record-jar-02 compatible record-jar formatted text into this box, click on the convert button, and view the text in all its JSON glory.

About

Record jar is a file format first defined in Eric s. Raymonds book “The Art of Unix Programming” as “[..] a textual format that will support multiple records with a variable repertoire of explicit fieldnames, one of the least surprising and human-friendliest ways to do it would look like Example 5.4.”

Example 5.4. Basic data for three planets in a record-jar format.

Planet: Mercury
Orbital-Radius: 57,910,000 km
Diameter: 4,880 km
Mass: 3.30e23 kg
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Planet: Venus
Orbital-Radius: 108,200,000 km
Diameter: 12,103.6 km
Mass: 4.869e24 kg
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Planet: Earth
Orbital-Radius: 149,600,000 km
Diameter: 12,756.3 km
Mass: 5.972e24 kg
Moons: Luna

This site implements the second draft for the record-jar format, by addison phillips, since it is currently the most up to date, and in depth description of how these files should be formatted.

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