How to convert string to object array in jquery

Question

I have a string as shown below

[{ date: new Date(2015,9,25), NAV: 12},{ date: new Date(2016,9,25), NAV: 22}]

how can i convert that to object array using jQuery?

Is `new Date(2015,9,25)` part of your string? If it is, it will throw error. — sam, Nov 15 '16 at 06:43
@Ajai how have you written above string `var loremString = "[{ date: new Date(2015,9,25), NAV: 12},{ date: new Date(2016,9,25), NAV: 22}]";` or `var loremArray = [{ date: new Date(2015,9,25), NAV: 12},{ date: new Date(2016,9,25), NAV: 22}];` ? — sam, Nov 15 '16 at 06:47
@msagala So by your statement `'imAString'` is not string because it uses `'` and not `"`? — Justinas, Nov 15 '16 at 07:20
@Justinas yeah it work too with single quotation marks. thanks for clearing my comment. :) — msagala25, Nov 15 '16 at 07:23

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:45

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Since new Date(2015,9,25) is not valid JSON, than you need to use eval(yourString) to parse your string to valid Object:

console.log(eval('[{ date: new Date(2015,9,25), NAV: 12},{ date: new Date(2016,9,25), NAV: 22}]'));

answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:45

Justinas

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:42

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You can convert to a valid Javascript object using function

JSON.parse(str);

but string should be in valid json format.

answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:42

kailash yogeshwar

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:45

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try this,

var obj = $.parseJSON(jsonString);

or 

var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(jsonString);

may be this might help

answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:45

Rehan Shikkalgar

What's the difference between two lines of code? When it's better to use first over second? – Justinas Nov 15 '16 at 07:21
'$' and 'jQuery' both are same, except '$' is just an alias of 'jQuery'. – Rehan Shikkalgar Nov 15 '16 at 18:36

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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you can convert it to json.parse:

    var json = $.parseJSON(myString)

or you can refer this link below

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

answered Nov 15 '16 at 06:48

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