exporting text to JSON hangs on %27 character

[Bill Stephenson]

I’m using Perl to convert old CGI.pm “save” files to JSON that look like this:

c_name=Joseph%20Semeister
c_address1=9445%20Sofa%27s%20Mill%20Rd
c_address2=
c_city=Red%20Tree
c_state=PA
c_zip=17356
=

and loading them into a CouchDB (v. 3.1.1) with curl but files with that " %27 
“ string hang with an error:

malformed JSON string, neither tag, array, object, number, string or atom, at 
character offset 0 (before "(end of string)")

I’ve narrowed down the issue to that “%27” and I can remove that like so:

        $myJSON =~ s/'//;

But that doesn’t preserve the original text string "9445 Sofa’s Mill Rd”.

I’m not savvy enough to call this a “bug” but this doesn’t break on other 
encoded text like “%20”. 

Anyone got any suggestions for how I might work around this?

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Kindest Regards,

Bill Stephenson