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# basic_json::accept
```cpp
// (1)
template<typename InputType>
static bool accept(InputType&& i,
const bool ignore_comments = false);
// (2)
template<typename IteratorType>
static bool accept(IteratorType first, IteratorType last,
const bool ignore_comments = false);
```
Checks whether the input is valid JSON.
1. Reads from a compatible input.
2. Reads from a pair of character iterators
The value_type of the iterator must be a integral type with size of 1, 2 or 4 bytes, which will be interpreted
respectively as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
Unlike the [`parse`](parse.md) function, this function neither throws an exception in case of invalid JSON input
(i.e., a parse error) nor creates diagnostic information.
## Template parameters
`InputType`
: A compatible input, for instance:
- an `std::istream` object
- a `FILE` pointer
- a C-style array of characters
- a pointer to a null-terminated string of single byte characters
- an object `obj` for which `begin(obj)` and `end(obj)` produces a valid pair of iterators.
`IteratorType`
: a compatible iterator type
## Parameters
`i` (in)
: Input to parse from.
`ignore_comments` (in)
: whether comments should be ignored and treated like whitespace (`#!cpp true`) or yield a parse error
(`#!cpp false`); (optional, `#!cpp false` by default)
`first` (in)
: iterator to start of character range
`last` (in)
: iterator to end of character range
## Return value
Whether the input is valid JSON.
## Exception safety
Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.
## Complexity
Linear in the length of the input. The parser is a predictive LL(1) parser.
## Notes
(1) A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
## Examples
??? example
The example below demonstrates the `accept()` function reading from a string.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/accept__string.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/accept__string.output"
```
## Version history
- Added in version 3.0.0.
- Ignoring comments via `ignore_comments` added in version 3.9.0.