Format output from jsonencode to make it more human readable

Can someone provide an example to format the output from jsonencode to make it more human readable. I.E. add carriage returns and indentations.

[Swathik Kurella Janardhan]

I am sorry that I didn't understand the question clearly. Can you elaborate on your question? You can refer to the jsonencode doc for more examples.

Answer 1

[jcbyts]

There might be a more efficient way to do this, but this worked well for me.

str = jsonencode(str);
str = strrep(str, ',', sprintf(',\r'));
str = strrep(str, '[{', sprintf('[\r{\r'));
str = strrep(str, '}]', sprintf('\r}\r]'));

[Payam Razavi]

Thanks! it worked for me with the following modification:

str = strrep(str, ',"', sprintf(',\r"'));

Answer 2

[Noam Greenboim]

You can use my solution in File Exchange here:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/167351-indentjson

With this function, you can control the indentation parameters and spacing.

As of R2021a or so (but not earlier version), you can call jsonencode with the parameter PrettyPrint, that does what you asked for.

Create JSON-formatted text from structured MATLAB data - MATLAB jsonencode (mathworks.com)