Create JSON from string, to use as object

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So I want to create this JSON object: ``` { "id":"3", "created":"0000-00-00", "parentIDs":null, "childIDs":"", "uid":"movies", "title":"Movies", "related":"movies", "pos":"", "css":"{ "background-image":"-webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(46,44,46) 49%, rgb(18,17,18) 75%)" }" } ``` from string: ``` value = ""id":"3","created":"0000-00-00","parentIDs":null,"childIDs":"","uid":"imdb","title":"Imdb","related":"movies","pos":""" ``` This string comes from a database, so I can't really change the formatting, but it should be correct like this. (This string originates from an array of similiar strings, which I iterate through, somehow losing the {} around them) I tried removing the outer quotes with `value.substr(1, value.length - 2);`. And then convert it with `.toJSON();` but it only adds a whole lot of extra slashes I don't need. I just need to add `{}` around it, and then javascript would see it as a JSON object. Is there any shorthand way of doing that? or is there a small library tha…

Accepted Answer

If you have a string that contains valid JSON, you can convert it to a JavaScript Object using `JSON.parse()`.

Assuming you have a string:

```
value = '"id":"3","created":"0000-00-00","parentIDs":null,"childIDs":"","uid":"imdb","title":"Imdb","related":"movies","pos":""';
```

you would then do:

```
obj = JSON.parse("{"+value+"}");JSON
```

Note it needs the `{}` as part of the string to be a valid JSON string.

Create JSON from string, to use as object

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