Passing json data from an api to a javascript variable

Question

Am a newbie in json/javascript so please bear with me. Am getting json data from an api url that loads sth like ``` { "employees": [ { "firstName":"John" , "lastName":"Doe" }, { "firstName":"Anna" , "lastName":"Smith" }, { "firstName":"Peter" , "lastName":"Jones" } ] ``` i need it as a javascript variable on a script file ``` var employess={ "employees": [ { "firstName":"John" , "lastName":"Doe" }, { "firstName":"Anna" , "lastName":"Smith" }, { "firstName":"Peter" , "lastName":"Jones" } ] } ``` Ave tried ``` $.getJSON(myUrl",function(data){ $("#selector").data("JSONP",data); alert(data); }); ```

Accepted Answer

Put your JSON string a variable `var jsonString`

then...

```
var myJsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);
```

Passing json data from an api to a javascript variable

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