so i am using json to pass some information from one place to another...

i have:

message.title = 'this is only a "test"';

so obviously, when i use JSON.stringify, i get escaped quotes.

What i want to know is, what is the best way to unescape those quotes when using JSON.Parse. i have:

var message = JSON.parse(message);
var original = ????;
var final = ????;
var regex = new RegExp(original, 'g');
for(var prop in message){
   message.data[prop] = message.data[prop].replace(regex, final);
}

I wish to know if i am doing something wrong and, as i tried various values in 'original' and 'final', what are correct values for them.

Thank you

so i am using json to pass some information from one place to another...

i have:

message.title = 'this is only a "test"';

so obviously, when i use JSON.stringify, i get escaped quotes.

What i want to know is, what is the best way to unescape those quotes when using JSON.Parse. i have:

var message = JSON.parse(message);
var original = ????;
var final = ????;
var regex = new RegExp(original, 'g');
for(var prop in message){
   message.data[prop] = message.data[prop].replace(regex, final);
}

I wish to know if i am doing something wrong and, as i tried various values in 'original' and 'final', what are correct values for them.

Thank you

• javascript
• regex
• json

• What do you want to do with the parsed object? – Ray Toal Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 17:14
• thanks Ray, it is solved, it was my mistake – André Alçada Padez Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 17:20

1 Answer 1

What i want to know is, what is the best way to unescape those quotes when using JSON.Parse

Do nothing. Parsing JSON will decode escapes. (If that doesn't work, then something is breaking between the data being converted to JSON and being parsed, or the data was bad to begin with)