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Streaming means that outputs are produced as soon as possible. With the
`foreach` syntax one can write programs which reduce portions of the
streaming parse of a large input (reduce into proper JSON values, for
example), and discard the rest, processing incrementally.
This:
$ jq -c --stream .
should produce the same output as this:
$ jq -c '. as $dot | path(..) as $p | $dot | getpath($p) | [$p,.]'
The output of `jq --stream .` should be a sequence of`[[<path>],<leaf>]`
and `[[<path>]]` values. The latter indicate that the array/object at
that path ended.
Scalars and empty arrays and objects are leaf values for this purpose.
For example, a truncated input produces a path as soon as possible, then
later the error:
$ printf '[0,\n'|./jq -c --stream .
[[0],0]
parse error: Unfinished JSON term at EOF at line 3, column 0
$
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