How can I convert a string to object in Javascript?

Question

I know this question has been answered many times before. But my string is a little different from others. Here's my data:

let str = "{'name':'joe', 'text':\"that's amazing\", 'registered':True, 'height':193, 'related':{'foo':'bar', 'some':'thing'}}"

and I am looking for something like: :

let obj = { name: 'joe',text:"that's amazing", registered:true, height: 193, related:{foo:'bar', some:'thing'}}

Answer 1

You can try using replace() and JSON.parse() :

 let str = "{'name':'joe', 'registered':true, 'height':193, 'related':{'foo':'bar', 'some':'thing'}}"; let obj = str.replace(/'/g,'"'); obj = JSON.parse(obj); console.log(obj);

Update: Since you are having apostrophe in your string, you can try using JSON5 API which is compatible with the JSON API :

 let str = "{'name':'joe', 'text':\"that's amazing\", 'registered':'True', 'height':193, 'related':{'foo':'bar', 'some':'thing'}}"; let obj = JSON5.parse(str); console.log(obj);

 <script src="https://unpkg.com/json5@^2.0.0/dist/index.min.js"></script>

Answer 2

You can convert a JSON formatted string to object by parsing the string, like so: let obj = JSON.parse(str);