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Improper parsing of literals

Description

Handling of numeric literals doesn't perform according to the JSON spec.

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Returns the number 1232. According to the spec, this should actually be an invalid literal and throw an exception:

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Alex Miller December 20, 2023 at 11:55 PM

Resolved by previous changes (also see for additional options)

import July 28, 2015 at 11:39 PM

(I assume there's a typo in the description - 123 is returned, not 1232)

It's not just literal values, non-whitespace at the end of any input is silently ignored and should be rejected:

NB This behaviour agrees with the docstring ("Reads a single item of JSON data from ...").

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Created July 7, 2015 at 9:24 PM
Updated December 20, 2023 at 11:55 PM
Resolved December 20, 2023 at 11:55 PM