al notranslate"><span class="pre">chars(Variable)</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">atom(Variable)</span></code>).</p>
</section>
<section id="decoding">
<h2>Decoding<a class="headerlink" href="#decoding" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Decoding is accomplished using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parse/2</span></code> predicate. For example,
to decode a given json file:</p>
<div class="highlight-logtalk notranslate">