Saneef H. Ansari

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"Characters like ., will be removed from object keys" - why?

Fabian Iwand

Link to translated version: https://github-com.translate.goog/yetrun/json5-to-table?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

The `json5-to-table` seems ignoring properties with `.` in the key. Here is a fork of this notebook with removal of `.` disabled, https://observablehq.com/d/9de2579a129b779f#cell-16.

A split on "." seems to be the cause: https://github.com/yetrun/json5-to-table/blob/e1b22a7979c77def70ae5f5b7bae480aaa09cfac/lib/helpers/retrieveProperty.js#L33

I can't immediately spot a straight forward way to work around that, but I'd recommend to replace "." with "_" instead of removing.

Can you add an example to your fork that shows how commas in the prop name affect the output? In my tests adding a "," in the keys worked fine.

Removing `,` is my stupidity. I'll keep commas as it is. 

I'll replace `.` to `_` like you suggested. Seems more sensible than removing it.