How to provide JSON as a value to the env var about dotenv-hs HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @Martinsos Thank you so much for using dotenv! Have you tried to wrap the value with single quotes?

# .env
JSON='{"a":[1,2,3]}'

I tested locally and it seems to be working fine:

$ dotenv 'echo $JSON' | jq .a
[
  1,
  2,
  3
]

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That works perfect! Thanks a lot! Might be worth adding in the docs?
What if we have both single and double quotes in our string -> what could we do then?

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Hey @Martinsos You can always escape the inner quotes with \' or \" depending on the quotes that surround it:

Surround with ''

# .env
JSON='{"a":[1,2,3], "b": "\'asdf\'"}'

Surrounding with ""

# .env
JSON="{\"a\":[1,2,3], \"b\": \"'asdf'\"}"

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I'll include a section about this in the README! Thanks for the suggestion. 😄

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So even that works -> ok that is amazing, thanks a lot for being so proactive and helpful!

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