How to use double quoted string for parseJSON?

Question

Below piece of code is working fine.

$(document).ready(function() {
    var jsonp = '[{"Lang":"jQuery","ID":"1"},{"Lang":"C#","ID":"2"}]';
    var lang = '';
    var obj = $.parseJSON(jsonp);
    $.each(obj, function() {
        lang += this['Lang'] + "<br/>";
    });
    $('span').html(lang);
});

For the string "jQuery", I need to use "jQu\\"something\\"ery" to become the text as JQu"something"ery. But it doesn't work. Is there any solution for this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

You need to make sure the quotes in the JSON are escaped, which means doing some double-escaping:

var jsonp = '[{"Lang":"jQu\\\"something\\\"ery","ID":"1"},{"Lang":"C#","ID":"2"}]';

That JavaScript string contains this JSON:

[{"Lang":"jQu\"something\"ery","ID":"1"},{"Lang":"C#","ID":"2"}]

As you can see, the string value for the Lang property contains escaped quotes.

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