Reading json files in C++

Question

I\'m trying to read in a JSON file. So far I have focused on using the jsoncpp library. However, the documentation is quite hard to understand for me. Could anyone

Answer 1

Here is another easier possibility to read in a json file:

#include "json/json.h"

std::ifstream file_input("input.json");
Json::Reader reader;
Json::Value root;
reader.parse(file_input, root);
cout << root;

You can then get the values like this:

cout << root["key"]