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Is it common for non-programmers to need to get data values from JSON objects?
A client asked me to write some Excel VBA code to parse a few field values from JSON objects imported into Excel as text. Just wondering if that's very unusual or if there might be a lot of need for that among non-programmers.
2 Answers
- 4 years ago
Do you have any CS (Computer Science) background? If you're just a straight Excel user or Database user/administrator... I'd find that a bit unusual. That takes a bit of programming knowledge or understanding in order to know how it would interface. Or at least some background knowledge in JSON, or advanced Excel usage???
As a CS major I could probably check it out and learn how to do it, I've done very similar things before. But for someone who has little CS knowledge, and little experience programming, I would find this a bit of an odd request if there no good resources on how to do it. Most non-programmers/non-CS or IT people would have no real idea where to even look.
- ChrisLv 74 years ago
Sounds uncommon, JSON is usually used for server communication, not visibly in frontend apps.
