parse

Converts a string into a structured document at runtime.

Syntax

parse(format, content)

Arguments

• format (string) - The format to parse ("json", "yaml", "toml", etc).

• content (string) - The string to parse.

Examples

Parse JSON and access a field

parse("json", '{"name":"Tom"}').name
// "Tom"

Parse YAML

parse("yaml", "name: Tom\nage: 30").name
// "Tom"

CLI usage — parse an embedded JSON string from a YAML file

$ echo 'config: {"port": 8080}' | dasel -i yaml 'parse("json", config).port'
8080

Combined with readFile

parse("json", readFile("config.json")).database.host

Roundtrip with stringify

parse("json", stringify("json", {"a": 1})).a
// 1