ENV to JSON converter

Convert literal environment settings to JSON.

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Updated 2026-09-20

ENV to JSON converter explained

Convert a literal NAME=value file into a JSON object of strings. Empty lines and comment lines are ignored. Quoted values can contain spaces; duplicate names are reported instead of quietly replacing a value.

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A worked example

PORT=0300 becomes {"PORT":"0300"}, keeping its leading zero. DEBUG=false becomes the string "false", matching an environment variable’s text value.

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No shell evaluation, variable interpolation, command substitution or multiline quoting. Double-quoted backslash-n and backslash-r become line breaks. This defines a literal .env subset; dotenv implementations differ.

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