Unable to parse TAB in JSON files

Question

I am running into a parsing problem when loading JSON files that seem to have the TAB character in them.

When I go to http://jsonlint.com/, and I e

Answer 1

Just to share my experience:

I am using snakemake and a config file written in Json. There are tabs in the json file for indentation. TAB are legal for this purpose. But I am getting error message: snakemake.exceptions.WorkflowError: Config file is not valid JSON or YAML. I believe this is a bug of snakemake; but I could be wrong. Please comment. After replacing all TABs with spaces the error message is gone.