I think I must be making a basic mistake with setting dictionary to JSON: Here is a screen shot.
The set dictionary works fine. The set dictionary to JSON fails (abort macro is off to get the window display to work). I have tried each of the Process Text (Normal, Tokens, Nothing) and I tried formatting the string both with (shown) and without "pretty" formatting , ie no returns.
I've read all the other messages related but nothing I've found helps ... can any one point me to what I'm doing wrong please
Could you post the macro itself ?
( the action is hidden there by the error message )
Looks like a "smartquotes" issue
Something on your system has "auto-corrected" JSON-valid plain double quotes to a JSON-invalid "smart" character at the start of "Canada 1825"
“Canada
Fix it to this:
{
"Canada 1825" : "20 Jun 1825",
"Canada 1831" : "1 Jun 1831"
}
and I think you will be fine.
If there's any reason to anticipate repetition of this glitch, you could insert a preliminary Filter action to remove any accidental "smart" quote characters:
Thanks very much... you have eagle eyes!. Yes this fixed the problem ... and I can repeatedly reproduce it even starting macro from scratch... so the filter is the trick.
Thanks
