Read JSON array without curly brackets

Question

I'm trying to get the values from array in a JSON file. Array only has a square brackets and not curly brackets something like this: "{"name_of_the_array: ["value_1", "value_2"]"}"

I found here some answer but it did not work for me the code of the answer is:

JSONArray array = new JSONArray("array_name");

        for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {

            str = array.get(i).toString();
            list.add(str);
        }

the list is ArrayList list.

Possible duplicate of [How to parse JSON in Android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9605913/how-to-parse-json-in-android) — ADM, May 27 '18 at 08:41

Abu Yousuf · Answer 1 · 2018-05-27T08:58:27.703

{} denotes a JSONObject so you have to create a JSONObject first. [] denotes a JSONArray. You have to fetch the JSONArray from JSONObject with key.

Use this code

    JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonString);
    JSONArray array = jsonObject.getJSONArray("array_name");
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {

        str = array.get(i).toString();
        list.add(str);
    }

Check this and this for parsing

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '18 at 09:23

try something like this
   JSONArray array = new JSONArray("array_name");

    for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {

        str = array.getJSONObject(i).getString("string_name");
        list.add(str);
    }

  or you can try this too
  JSONArray array = new JSONArray("array_name");

    for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {

        str = array.getString("string_name");
        list.add(str);
    }

Read JSON array without curly brackets

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