Subj : Re: read json from file
To   : echicken
From : Mortifis
Date : Sat Jun 20 2020 09:43 pm

 >   Re: read json from file
 >   By: Mortifis to All on Sat Jun 20 2020 11:24:37

 >  Mo> I have a local json file that I'd like to search for a matching unknown
 >  Mo> record
 >  Mo> # without having to read in the entire object (the file has over 200,00
 >  Mo> records

 > If your file looks like this:

 > {"a":0,"b":1,"c":2,"d":3}

 > You basically need to parse the whole thing. Or write your own special
 > parser.

 > If your file is like this:

 > {"a":0,"b":1,"c":2,"d":3}
 > {"e":4,"f":5,"g":6,"h":7}

 > Then those are two separate JSON strings on adjacent lines. In which case
 > you can read the file line by line, and each line will work with
 > JSON.parse.sadly ... it looks like this :

[
  {
    "id": 707860,
    "name": "Hurzuf",
    "country": "UA",
    "coord": {
      "lon": 34.283333,
      "lat": 44.549999
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 519188,
    "name": "Novinki",
    "country": "RU",
    "coord": {
      "lon": 37.666668,
      "lat": 55.683334
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 1283378,
    "name": "Gorkhā",
    "country": "NP",
    "coord": {
      "lon": 84.633331,
      "lat": 28
    }
  }, .... that's the 1st three records of 209,578 records ... gotta read all
209,578 records (1 million, 8 hundred 86 thousand, 2 hundred 13 lines) ? ...
bleh ... lol

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