patch editor randomly repeats unit code, making the patch unreadable

[spentcud]

rn reporting an issue that happened to someone else
i dont know what causes it, but it seems that after the recent update (i assume 1.12.2, i havent kept track of releases), data patcher can rarely repeat code; an example is shown in the code below
when this code repeat happens, the datapatch becomes completely impossible to edit with patch editor, unless the repeated code is found and deleted manually with an external text editor
the issue is that (at least for this example), when the code is repeated, its repeated inside unit.mono
this causes most of the duplicated code to end up inside unit.mono.unit.mono:{}
and when patch editor tries to read this, it explodes
for some reason, it also tries to do "name":"Apothocary", instead of "localizedName":"Apothocary", which makes the game spit out an error as unit.mono.name cannot be edited; not sure if its relevant but i think it needs to be brought up

this is the code in question (formatted with a python script)

"unit:{
  "mono":{
      "localizedName":"Apothocary",
      "weapons":[{
         "type":"Weapon",
         "name":"PulseCannon",
         "shootSound":"shootLaser",
         "bullet":{
            "type":"LaserBoltBulletType",
            "backColor":"8bf97aff",
            "range":85.0,
            "lifetime":70.0,
            "healPercent":5.0,
            "healAmount":10.0,
            "damage":15.0,
            "pierceCap":1.0,
            "speed":2.0,
            "width":1.0,
            "height":6.0,
            "collidesTeam":"true"
         },
         "region":"mono",
         "shoot":{
            "type":"ShootAlternate",
            "mirror":"true",
            "shotDelay":1.0
         },
         "reload":35.0,
         "x":0.0,
         "y":2.0,
         "recoils":3.0
      }],
      "abilities":[{
         "type":"RepairFieldAbility",
         "percentAmount":2.0,
         "amount":5.0
      }],
      "name":"Apothocary",
      "unit":{
         "mono":{
            "localizedName":"Apothocary",
            "weapons":[{
               "type":"Weapon",
               "name":"PulseCannon",
               "shootSound":"shootLaser",
               "bullet":{
                  "type":"LaserBoltBulletType",
                  "backColor":"8bf97aff",
                  "range":85.0,
                  "lifetime":70.0,
                  "healPercent":5.0,
                  "healAmount":10.0,
                  "damage":15.0,
                  "pierceCap":1.0,
                  "speed":2.0,
                  "width":1.0,
                  "height":6.0
               },
               "region":"mono",
               "shoot":{
                  "type":"ShootAlternate",
                  "mirror":"true",
                  "shotDelay":1.0
               },
               "reload":35.0,
               "x":0.0,
               "y":2.0,
               "recoils":3.0
            }],
            "abilities":[{
               "type":"RepairFieldAbility",
               "percentAmount":2.0,
               "amount":35.0
            }]
         }
      },
      "range":70.0,
      "maxRange":70.0,
      "armor":1.0,
      "speed":2.5,
      "crashDamageMultiplier":0.0,
      "buildSpeed":0.25
   }
}

[MinRi2]

It's hard for me to reproduce. Could you provide more infomation about it? Like when the issue happened what did you do in patch editor?

[spentcud]

i wasnt the one using patch editor cuz i dont use patch editor 💀
if the owner is alright with it i could probably share the entire data patch code that had this bug if that helps