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Parsing string as JSON with single quotes?

December 20, 2022 by Tarik

The JSON standard requires double quotes and will not accept single quotes, nor will the parser. If you have a simple case with no escaped single quotes in your strings (which would normally be impossible, but this isn’t JSON), you can simple str.replace(/’/g, ‘”‘) and you should end up with valid JSON.

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Do the JSON keys have to be surrounded by quotes?

October 2, 2022 by Tarik

Yes, you need quotation marks. This is to make it simpler and to avoid having to have another escape method for javascript reserved keywords, ie {for:”foo”}.

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