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JSON Validation and Common Errors/Raw newlines inside strings are invalid

Use `\n` rather than an actual line break inside a string literal.

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Section: Common parse failures

Raw newlines inside strings are invalid

json
json
{
  "text": "line 1\nline 2"
}
Explanation

A raw line break inside the quotes breaks parsing.

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