StringToFormattedJSON.swift

//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

import UIKit


let string = """
            {"name" : "alice"}
            {"name" : "bob"}
            {"name" : "jane"}
            """
let stringWithCommaDelimeters = string.replacingOccurrences(of: "}", with: "},")
let stringWithSquareBrackets = "[\(stringWithCommaDelimeters)]"

let jsonData = stringWithSquareBrackets.data(using: .utf8)!

struct Person: Codable {
    let name: String
}

let decoder = JSONDecoder()

do {
    let people = try decoder.decode([Person].self, from: jsonData)
    print("there are \(people.count) people")
} catch {
    print("decoding error: \(error)")
}

print(jsonData)