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Get the Index of a JSON Member

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This example demonstrates how to get the index of a given member by name.
{
  "name": "donut",
  "image":
    {
    "fname": "donut.jpg",
    "w": 200,
    "h": 200
    },
  "thumbnail":
    {
    "fname": "donutThumb.jpg",
    "w": 32,
    "h": 32
    }
}

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

' This is the above JSON with whitespace chars removed (SPACE, TAB, CR, and LF chars).
' The presence of whitespace chars for pretty-printing makes no difference to the Load
' method. 
jsonStr = "{""name"": ""donut"",""image"":{""fname"": ""donut.jpg"",""w"": 200,""h"": 200},""thumbnail"":{""fname"": ""donutThumb.jpg"",""w"": 32,""h"": 32}}"

success = json.Load(jsonStr)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' The top-level JSON object has three members: name, image, and thumbnail.
nameIndex = json.IndexOf("name")
' The index of the "name" member is 0.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "nameIndex = " & nameIndex) & "</pre>"

thumbIndex = json.IndexOf("thumbnail")
' The index of the "thumbnail" member is 2.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "thumbIndex = " & thumbIndex) & "</pre>"

' The "fname" member is NOT a direct member of the top-level JSON object.
' It is a member of a nested object.  If we try to get the index of this
' member using the top-level JSON object, it is not found (and returns -1).
fnameIndex = json.IndexOf("fname")
' The fnameIndex is -1 (not found).  This is correct.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "fnameIndex = " & fnameIndex) & "</pre>"

' Get the "image" object.
set imageObj = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.ObjectOf2("image",imageObj)

' Now we can get the index of the "fname" object, because it is a direct
' member of the "image" object:
fnameIndex = imageObj.IndexOf("fname")
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "fnameIndex = " & fnameIndex) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>