Needed example of .toStringArray()

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Hello @dneilan,

@dneilan

I will have to do a manual conversion as my JSONArray contains Arrays, Objects etc.

This is an interesting topic and I am interested in your manual conversion.
A simple example will suffice.

This was a very quick effort for me and the data was straightforward from one of the Processing examples:

// Reference:
// https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/jsonobject-tostring-how-to-convert-json-to-a-string-in-java/

String[] species = { "Capra hircus", "Panthera pardus", "Equus zebra" };
String[] names = { "Goat", "Leopard", "Zebra" };

JSONArray values;

String [] JSONtoArr;

void setup() 
  {
  values = new JSONArray();

  for (int i = 0; i < species.length; i++) 
    {
    JSONObject animal = new JSONObject();

    animal.setInt("id", i);
    animal.setString("species", species[i]);
    animal.setString("name", names[i]);

    values.setJSONObject(i, animal);
    }
  
  String s = values.toString();
  println(s);
  println();
  
  JSONtoArr = split(s, '\n');
  printArray(JSONtoArr );
  println();
  
  for(int i=0; i< JSONtoArr.length; i++)
    {
    JSONtoArr[i] = JSONtoArr[i].trim();
    JSONtoArr[i] = JSONtoArr[i].replaceAll("\"", "");   
    }
  printArray(JSONtoArr);   
  println();
    
  saveStrings("test.txt", JSONtoArr);
  }

I always enjoy the challenge of custom parsing data to access elements and wield them with code.

Have fun!

:)