Allow DOT Operator to work on Objects returned by ParseJSON() and Object()

[Paul_Danyliuk]

@Christiaan_Huizer

The logic we have to apply today includes quite some manipulation of an unexpected type that even includes a Slice() to get rid of a curly bracket at the start of the list.

No need to, just learn JSONPath. Some time ago it wasn’t supported but it’s been around for half of the year already or so.

How to extract @People and other @-references from a Text cell

A client asked me today how he could take a text field like this and extract people from it: [image] The “straightforward” ideas like using Split didn’t work. Links and @-references in formatted text are unlike the rest of the text: technically they occupy just one empty character and instead have an extended encoded descriptor telling what should be displayed in place of that empty character. Running a formatted text field through just strips those descriptors and that’s what you get: [imag…