Here is the JSON returned from my Server.

"[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]"

I want to remove the outer double quates. Which means I want the JSON as

[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]

How can I do this? Please help.

Here is the JSON returned from my Server.

"[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]"

I want to remove the outer double quates. Which means I want the JSON as

[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]

How can I do this? Please help.

• javascript
• jquery
• json

• 1 If it has quotes around it like that, it is a string of JSON and not JSON. – Quentin Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 9:14
• if your server is actually sending those outer double quotes, it's not legal JSON... – Alnitak Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 9:15
• @Quentin Thank you all. So if this is not a proper JSON, how do I convert this string of JSON to real JSON? – Thilok Gunawardena Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 9:21

5 Answers 5

You want to turn the JSON into JS objects right? If so, you would do JSON.parse(json). If you need IE7 support, you have to include a polyfill for JSON as it's not supported in IE7<.

You can get the current JSON polyfill here: https://github./douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json2.js

As the response from the server is not valid JSON you have to request it as text, fix it, and parse it as JSON. Use dataType: 'text' in your options in the ajax call.

Use the substr method to cut of the first and last character:

data = data.substr(1, data.length - 2);

Then you can parse the JSON:

var obj = $.parseJSON(data);

To strip the first and last character from a string:

var fixed_string = string.substring(1, string.length - 1);

var str = '[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]';

var data = (new Function( "return " +s))(); console.log(f);

In your case response from server is a json string you have to convert it to json object

var str = '[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]'; 
str = eval('('+str+')');
console.log(str[0].name) //this will give test

Hope this helps.