Convert string to JSON Object

Question

How do I convert string to object? I am facing this problem because I am trying to read the elements in the JSON string using "each".

My string is given below.

jsonObj = "{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}"

I have used eval and I have used

var obj = $.parseJSON(jsonObj);

And i have also used

var obj= eval("(" + jsonObj + ")");

But it comes null all the time

have you tried single quotes? `'{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}'` — Mark Schultheiss, Feb 06 '12 at 18:13
possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45015/safely-turning-a-json-string-into-an-object?rq=1 — mas_oz2k1, May 08 '13 at 07:53

score 70 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:13

70

Enclose the string in single quote it should work. Try this.

var jsonObj = '{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}';
var obj = $.parseJSON(jsonObj);

answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:13

ShankarSangoli

1

Thanks @ShankarSangoli. "$.parseJSON()" works fine. I was trying with "parseJSON()" which didn't really help. – simplysiby Jul 12 '18 at 04:17

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

18

Combining Saurabh Chandra Patel's answer with Molecular Man's observation, you should have something like this:

JSON.parse('{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}');

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

Community

answered Sep 30 '14 at 22:42

Arnold

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:18

11

try:

var myjson = '{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}';
var newJ= $.parseJSON(myjson);
    alert(newJ.TeamList[0].teamname);

answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:18

Mark Schultheiss

Thank you very much for your code `$.parseJSON(myjson)` . It is really work. – Frank Myat Thu Jun 21 '12 at 10:31

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '14 at 05:26

4

only with js

   JSON.parse(jsonObj);

answered Sep 17 '14 at 05:26

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:14

Your string is not valid. Double quots cannot be inside double quotes. You should escape them:

"{\"TeamList\" : [{\"teamid\" : \"1\",\"teamname\" : \"Barcelona\"}]}"

or use single quotes and double quotes

'{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}'

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:14

3

Quick answer, this eval work:

eval('var obj = {"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}')

answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:14

Simon Edström

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 13 '19 at 19:42

Without eval:

Your original string was not an actual string.

jsonObj = "{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}"

The easiest way to to wrap it all with a single quote.

 jsonObj = '"{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}"'

Then you can combine two steps to parse it to JSON:

 $.parseJSON(jsonObj.slice(1,-1))

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