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std.zon

Comprehensive reference for Zig's std.zon module covering binary parsing, archive handling, and structured formats.
This page syncs automatically from Zig's source: std/zon.md.

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Overview

ZON parsing and stringification.

ZON ("Zig Object Notation") is a textual file format. Outside of nan and inf literals, ZON's grammar is a subset of Zig's.

Supported Zig primitives:

  • boolean literals
  • number literals (including nan and inf)
  • character literals
  • enum literals
  • null literals
  • string literals
  • multiline string literals

Supported Zig container types:

  • anonymous struct literals
  • anonymous tuple literals

Here is an example ZON object:

.{
    .a = 1.5,
    .b = "hello, world!",
    .c = .{ true, false },
    .d = .{ 1, 2, 3 },
    .e = .{ .x = 13, .y = 67 },
}

Individual primitives are also valid ZON, for example:

"This string is a valid ZON object."

ZON may not contain type names.

ZON does not have syntax for pointers, but the parsers will allocate as needed to match the given Zig types. Similarly, the serializer will traverse pointers.

Table of Contents

Modules (3)

parse

Module – Expand to view import information and documentation.
pub const parse = @import("zon/parse.zig")

Module: zon/parse.zig → See source

stringify

Module – Expand to view import information and documentation.
pub const stringify = @import("zon/stringify.zig")

Module: zon/stringify.zig → See source

Serializer

Module – Expand to view import information and documentation.
pub const Serializer = @import("zon/Serializer.zig")

Module: zon/Serializer.zig → See source

Zip

Comprehensive reference for Zig's std.zip module covering binary parsing, archive handling, and structured formats.

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Transport stacks, HTTP client utilities, and URI helpers for networked applications.