PHP JSon How to read boolean value received in JSon format and write in string on PHP

Question

I receive this JSON string from another site and I cannot modify what received from. The string is receive in $_POST and is :

[
    {
        \"clientId\":\         


        

Answer 1

I know there is already an answer to this but it may be worth noting that var_dump outputs Boolean values better it just has worse formatting IMO.

Results in

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 
)
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  bool(true)
  [1]=>
  bool(false)
}