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Need to get a Specified word or value from a response string

I am trying to get a value from a third party device response.

the response is as follows;

{"p_targetId":0,"p_cmd":"getProductListSaved","p_rspStatus":"SUCCESS","p_msg":"","p_data":[{"globalproductlistsavedID":"1","ProductCustomName":"GDC","ProductIp":"192.168.168.","ProductMask":"255.255.255.0","ProductIsDhcp":"0","ProductIpTwo":"192.168.168.","ProductMaskTwo":"255.255.255.0","ProductIsDhcpTwo":"0","ProductSupported_ProductSupportedID":"3","ProductLogin":"","ProductPassword":"","ProductIdOverride":"1"}]}

In my lua script am writing, with data representing the above response;

name, value = string.match(data,"(.+):(.+)") Controls.DeviceName.String = tostring(value)

from this am always getting; "1"}]}

Is it possible to specify which part of the response I want to extract? example: "GDC" or "192.168.168.**"

Solution

  • Thats a JSON String.
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    The Linux Editor NeoVIM (nvim) has LuaJIT and JSON support.
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