Format a quoted array string into an array

Question

I have data like:

"[{\"workstationName\":\"Test Workstation Id 123\"},{\"workstationName\":\"Alex's Workstation\"}]"

I want it to simply be:

[{"workstationName":"Test Workstation Id 123"},{"workstationName":"Alex's Workstation"}]

I should know this. I tried a.to_ary, but no good. Any straight-forward way to process this? Thanks.

possible duplicate of [How do I parse JSON with Ruby on Rails?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1826727/how-do-i-parse-json-with-ruby-on-rails) — New Alexandria, Sep 10 '13 at 19:02

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '13 at 19:00

How is this ?

require 'json'
require 'yaml'

JSON.parse("[{\"workstationName\":\"Test Workstation Id 123\"},{\"workstationName\":\"Alex's Workstation\"}]")
# => [{"workstationName"=>"Test Workstation Id 123"},
#     {"workstationName"=>"Alex's Workstation"}]

YAML.load("[{\"workstationName\":\"Test Workstation Id 123\"},{\"workstationName\":\"Alex's Workstation\"}]")
# => [{"workstationName"=>"Test Workstation Id 123"},
#     {"workstationName"=>"Alex's Workstation"}]

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '13 at 19:01

1

JSON.parse is what you're looking for

answered Sep 10 '13 at 19:01

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