From 9de3005566acdc91de80ce58eeeab4fee36042c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michele Vivoda <eleumik@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:21:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update JSONArray.java for #1007

fix array content starting with ',' in strict mode
---
 src/main/java/org/json/JSONArray.java | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/json/JSONArray.java b/src/main/java/org/json/JSONArray.java
index c2e5c9a..7d12f98 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/json/JSONArray.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/json/JSONArray.java
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ public class JSONArray implements Iterable<Object> {
         if (nextChar == 0) {
             // array is unclosed. No ']' found, instead EOF
             throw x.syntaxError("Expected a ',' or ']'");
+        } else if (nextChar==',' && jsonParserConfiguration.isStrictMode()) {
+        	 throw x.syntaxError("Array content starts with a ','");
         }
         if (nextChar != ']') {
             x.back();