Why does the JSON module quote some numbers but not others?

Question

We recently switched to the new JSON2 perl module. I thought all and everything gets returned quoted now. But i encountered some cases in which a number (250) g

Answer 1

You can force it into a string by doing something like this:

$number_str = '' . $number;

For example:

perl -MJSON -le 'print encode_json({foo=>123, bar=>"".123})'
{"bar":"123","foo":123}

It looks like older versions of JSON has autoconvert functionality that can be set. Did you not have $JSON::AUTOCONVERT set to a true value?