>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>In one place of my app, the response of the Web API call is an "array" (I put the array in quotation marks because this is not exactly a VFP array). The "array" string looks like this:
>>>>

>>>>{"Version":"2.2222","Connected":true}
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>I suppose I can parse this string to get the values. But I was wondering if there is a "better" way to convert this string to an array or a cursor?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Just a quick solution, probably flawed
>>>
>>>

>>>clear
>>>local lcToParse, loRE
>>>
>>>lcToParse		= chrtran(STREXTRACT('{"Version":"2.2222","Connected":true}', '{', '}'), ',', CHR(10))
>>>loRE			= createobject('vbscript.regexp')
>>>loRE.Pattern		= '"(.+)"\:(.+)' 
>>>loRE.IgnoreCase		= .t.
>>>loRE.Global		= .t.
>>>loMatches		= loRE.Execute(lcToParse)
>>>
>>>for each loMatch in loMatches
>>>	? loMatch.Submatches(0), '=', loMatch.Submatches(1)
>>>endfor
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>STREXTRACT to remove the {} and then I convert the comma to Line Feeds. Of course this means that this won't work if there are commas that are inside text, i am sure there is a better regular expression, but is Friday...
>>
>>Interesting approach of using Regular Expression. In my view, it is a little 'overkill' since I can search the string for a key word (e.g. ["Version":]). I thought I was missing some built-in VFP function. But if you didn't see it, it means it does not exist.
>>Thank you!
>
>
>I first thought about using a combination of strextract and alines to parse, but what is the fun of it? :)

Actually for me using alines (which I have not thought about prior to you mentioning it, but now I will) is fun enough :).
I am still an apprentice :)