Node.js How To Parse String IN Array-JSON?

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var Download = request.download; // a["{\"status\":\"success\",\"data\":\"no\"}"] // String

How can parse this string?

Possible duplicate of [Safely turning a JSON string into an object](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45015/safely-turning-a-json-string-into-an-object) — Robert Moskal, Jun 21 '17 at 14:24
`var a = a["{\"status\":\"success\",\"data\":\"no\"}"]` is invalid JavaScript. Declaring `var a` in the same statement where you're trying to access a key which is JSON (which makes no sense), will throw `Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '{"status":"success","data":"no"}' of undefined` — Patrick Roberts, Jun 21 '17 at 14:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '17 at 14:30

I'm not sure I get what you are trying to do here, but I will assume that you want to parse the string into an object:

var string = "{\"status\":\"success\",\"data\":\"no\"}";
var obj = JSON.parse(string);

If you really want an array, you can look this StackOverflow post to convert you're object into an array.

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 21 '17 at 14:25

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To parse that string just use JSON.parse(). Run a js console and try this

JSON.parse("{\"status\":\"success\",\"data\":\"no\"}");

That will return a js object.

answered Jun 21 '17 at 14:25

franzke

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