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Well it's JSON so what can go wrong. (lemmy.world)
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[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

The value after the : isn't in double/single quotes, so it is a literal value. Thus, a float value will be parsed as a float. Whether it is 1E-5 or 0.00001. They are numerically equivalent, but not stringly equivalent.

If you are having errors parsing your JSON, then use a proper JSON library instead of trying to roll your own.