How to replace colon with equal sign within JSON data

Question

I am able to get the following JSON as an output after running a chef recipe

listener "tcp" {
  "tls_disable": 1,
  "address": "xx.xxx.xx.xx:8200"
}

However, I want the chef recipe output in the following format:

listener "tcp" {
  tls_disable = 1,
  address = "xx.xxx.xx.xx:8200"
}

Answer 1

Just use a regular expression. If your JSON response is in a variable called chef_output, you can use this:

formatted_output = chef_output.gsub(/\"([^\"]+)\":/, '\1 =')