JSON, malformed numeric literal

Question

I get a json exception "Malformed numeric literal..." when parsing JSON with the exponent notation:

"Data":[-1.17453E-08,0.08631]

-1.17453E-08 is a valid JSON number, no?

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Answer 1

Hi soothing,

Yes the definitely is a bug. The JSON grammar allows the exponent to start with leading zeros, however we currently are not allowing them. I'll make sure it gets fixed for a future release. Thanks for taking the time to report the issue to us.

Let us know if you have any other questions or issues.

Steve

Answer 2

Thank you for the quick feedback. The following info may help the bug:

The source of the zero padded exponent was System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer (in a separate application).

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