Convert JSON in print format to valid JSON

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I have a text file that is formatted like JSON, but in a print/view friendly format and I want to convert that string to valid JSON.Basically, I want to read the file using PHP5 and call json_decode to deserialize the string.But, json_decode is not able to parse the "print-friendly" json string.I am getting error 4 Invalid or malformed JSON.It looks like someone else had a similar issue as me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2410342/php-json-decode-returns-null-with-valid-jsonI am using notepad++ to write the json file.So, how can I convertFROM:\[code\]{ "data": [ { "thumbImg": "thumbImg", "street": "street", "city": "Fort Worth", "state": "Texas", "zip": "76192-0001", "url": "url" } ]}\[/code\]TO:\[code\]{"data":[{"thumbImg": "thumbImg", "street": "street", "city": "Fort Worth", "state": "Texas", "zip": "76192-0001", "url": "url"}]\[/code\]I even tried doing the following:\[code\]<?php$filename = "links.json";$file = fopen($filename, "r");$lines = file($filename);$datahttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3796938/= "";;foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) { $formatted = trim($line); $formatted = str_replace("\r", "", $formatted); $formatted = str_replace("\n", "", $formatted); $data .= $formatted; }$json = json_decode($data, true);?>\[/code\]I did a var_dump of the resulting json string and http://jsonlint.com/ marked it as valid json; however, json_decode is not able to deserialize the json string for some reason.Thank you!SOLUTIONI set the encoding of the text file to UTF-8 without BOM and it works fine now. thank you all!