decoding JSON issue in Perl code: , or ] expected while parsing array, at character offset -

i have written perl code working until recently, when tried run again. problem seems originate json::xs "decode_json" method.

code snippet:

use warnings; use strict; use moosex::singleton; use array::utils qw(:all); use data::dumper; use json::xs qw(encode_json decode_json); use storable; use tie::ixhash;      open (my $observations_fh, '<', 'observations.json') or die "could not open observations.json\n";     $observations_json = <$obserations_fh>;     @decoded_observations = @{decode_json($observations_json)}; 

usually, after code able go through each json component in loop , take specific information, error:

, or ] expected while parsing array, @ character offset 5144816 (before "(end of string)")

i saw similar question here, didn't resolve problem.

i have similar json decoding going on doesn't utilize @{decode_json($variable)}, when tried observations.json file, same error output.

i tried using json module, same error occurred.

any insight appreciated!

-cookersjs

that indicates have incomplete json in $observations_json. assumption entire file consists of 1 line incorrect. use

my $observations; {     open (my $observations_fh, '<', 'observations.json')         or die("can't open observations.json: $!\n");      local $/;     $observations_json = <$obserations_fh>;     $observations = decode_json($observations_json); } 

if doesn't help, observations.json doesn't contain valid json.