Calling a JSON table with id variables that are numbers?

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#1

I am decently new to Lua, an I have been trying to work on API calling JSON tables. However, one particular JSON Table I am trying to process has identifiers that start with numbers. For example, one such table looks like this:

“data”: {
    “1001”: {
       “plaintext”: “item title”,
       “description”: “item description”,
      “id”: 1001
            }
        }

When I try to decode the json file and print “data.1001.id” to the console, for example, I keep getting an error “malformed number near ‘.1001.id’”.

I’ve looked at other similar questions on this site that say to put it in square brackets, such as “data.[1001].id” or “data.[[1001]].id”, but when I do that I get the error " ‘<name>’ expected near ‘[[1001]]’".

Any help would be appreciated

#2

In this case you need to wrap the 1001 in “”.

data.[“1001”].id

This is, because your key into the table here actually is the string representing the number 1001 and not it’s actual integer value.

#3

In this case you need to wrap the 1001 in “”.

data.[“1001”].id

This is, because your key into the table here actually is the string representing the number 1001 and not it’s actual integer value.