GJSON is a Go package that provides a [very fast](#performance) and simple way to get a value from a json document. The purpose for this library it to give efficient json indexing for the [BuntDB](https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb) project.
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GJSON is a Go package that provides a [fast](#performance) and [simple](#get-a-value) way to get values from a json document.
It has features such as [one line retrieval](#get-a-value), [dot notation paths](#path-syntax), [iteration](#iterate-through-an-object-or-array), and [parsing json lines](#json-lines).
Also check out [SJSON](https://github.com/tidwall/sjson) for modifying json, and the [JJ](https://github.com/tidwall/jj) command line tool.
Getting Started
===============
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This will retrieve the library.
## Get a value
Get searches json for the specified path. A path is in dot syntax, such as "name.last" or "age". This function expects that the json is well-formed and validates. Invalid json will not panic, but it may return back unexpected results. When the value is found it's returned immediately.
Get searches json for the specified path. A path is in dot syntax, such as "name.last" or "age". When the value is found it's returned immediately.
```go
package main
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A key may contain special wildcard characters '\*' and '?'.
To access an array value use the index as the key.
To get the number of elements in an array or to access a child path, use the '#' character.
The dot and wildcard characters can be escaped with '\'.
The dot and wildcard characters can be escaped with '\\'.
For the `GetMany` benchmarks these paths are used:
```
widget.window.name
widget.image.hOffset
widget.text.onMouseUp
widget.window.title
widget.image.alignment
widget.text.style
widget.window.height
widget.image.src
widget.text.data
widget.text.size
```
*These benchmarks were run on a MacBook Pro 15" 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 using Go 1.8 and can be be found [here](https://github.com/tidwall/gjson-benchmarks).*
*These benchmarks were run on a MacBook Pro 15" 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 using Go 1.7.*