Merge pull request #15 from Shirtpantswallet/smart-quoting

reegnz · Jul 26, 2022 · 5a24091 · 5a24091
2 parents 890345e + 42f4617
commit 5a24091
Showing 1 changed file with 10 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/bin/jq-paths b/bin/jq-paths
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@
 JQ_REPL_JQ="${JQ_REPL_JQ:-jq}"
 $JQ_REPL_JQ -r '
 [
-  path(..) | map(select(type == "string") // "[]")
-  | join(".")
-] | sort | unique | .[] | split(".[]") | join("[]") | "." + .
+  path(..)  |
+  map(
+    # use generic object index syntax if key contains non-alphanumeric characters or starts with a digit
+    select(type == "string" and (test("[^a-zA-Z0-9_]") or test("^[0-9]"))) |= "[\"" + . + "\"]"
+  ) |
+  map(
+    # numbers are assumed to be array indexes only
+    select(type == "number") |= "[]"
+  ) | join(".")
+] | sort | unique | .[] | split(".[") | join("[") | "." + .
 '