JS: How to convert string to JSON Format using replace and then JSON.Parse

Question

I am having trouble converting my string to JSON format.

I have this specific kind of string:

{Object1=Text Goes Right Here, and Here, Object2 = Another Text Here}

I wanted to convert it to something like this

{"Object1":"Text Goes Right Here, and Here", "Object2":"Another Text Here"}

Can anybody help me figure out how to properly convert this.

I tried using replaceAll but it keeps on breaking on the comma.

str.replaceAll('=', '":"').replaceAll(', ', '", "').replaceAll('{', '{"').replaceAll('}', '"}')

And it ended up like this.

{"Object1":"Text Goes Right Here", "and Here", "Object2":"Another Text Here"}

I also tried regexm but it is not replacing the actual strings.

/[^[a-zA-Z]+, [a-zA-Z]+":$']/g

A regex or anything that could help would be fine. Thank you in advance!

Does this answer your question? [Convert JS object to JSON string](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4162749/convert-js-object-to-json-string) — Kinglish, Jul 11 '21 at 04:42
is that really what your initial string looks like? That's not valid anything. Can you show what it actually looks like? — Kinglish, Jul 11 '21 at 04:43
@Kinglish yes, that was the actual string I am getting from the result. I find it weird but I need to find a workaround just to format my object in proper JSON format. — Ayuk, Jul 11 '21 at 04:45
can we depend on the equal sign only happening with the assignments (Object1 = ...)? — Kinglish, Jul 11 '21 at 04:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '21 at 06:16

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Using Positive Lookahead

https://regex101.com/r/iCPrsp/2

const str = '{Object1=Text Goes Right Here, and Here, Object2 = Another Text Here}'

const res = str
  .replaceAll(/,\s*(?=[^,]*=)/g, '", "')
  .replaceAll(/\s*=\s*/g, '":"')
  .replaceAll('{', '{"')
  .replaceAll('}', '"}')

console.log(JSON.parse(res))

answered Jul 11 '21 at 06:16

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Thank you so much for this! It is really helpful! <3 – Ayuk Jul 11 '21 at 06:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '21 at 05:13

I made you an ugly script to fix an ugly problem... ;)

let string = "{Object1=Text Goes Right Here, and Here, Object2 = Another Text Here}";

let stringSplitted = string.replace(/[\{\}]/g,"").split("=")
console.log("=== Step #1")
console.log(stringSplitted)

let keys = []
let values = []
stringSplitted.forEach(function(item){
  item = item.trim()
  keys.push(item.split(" ").slice(-1).join(" "))
  values.push(item.split(" ").slice(0,-1).join(" "))
})
console.log("=== Step #2")
console.log(keys, values)

keys.pop()
values.shift()
console.log("=== Step #3")
console.log(keys, values)

let result = {}
keys.forEach(function(key, index){
  result[key] = values[index]
})
console.log("=== Result")
console.log(result)

JS: How to convert string to JSON Format using replace and then JSON.Parse

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