How to convert a string to an array in javascript?

Question

I have an input on a form which stores values as an object.

jQuery('#inputId').val()

returns something like

'[{"Id":"123","Name":"A","PathOfTerm":"A","Children":[],"Level":0,"RawTerm":null},{"Id":"234","Name":"B","PathOfTerm":"B","Children":[],"Level":0,"RawTerm":null}]'

as one single string. Is there any way to either prevent this from automatically converting to a string (maybe not using .val?) or to convert this from a string to something I could work with?

Answer 1

干得好

var array = JSON.parse(jQuery('#inputId').val());