JSON.parse with double quotes in String

[Rusco]

I am trying to handle over some data (which I get from a database and convert with C# to Json) to Phantomjs as Json String.
That means I have no influence on the content of the data (I have to accept the double quotes as they come).

PhantomJs refuses to Parse some data which have double quotes in its string.

As a short example:

Phantomjs: var i = "ab\"c"; //throws parseError, i is undefined
Nodejs/Recent Browser: var i = "ab\"c";   //ok, i = 'ab"c';


Did anybody already stumble over this issue ?

I already saw some related discussion here:
http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/02/from-double-quotes-to-single-quotes.html

[Ariya Hidayat]

This is so easy to test I don't know what kind of logic error do you
have. Create a script test.js containing these 3 lines:

var i = "ab\"c";

console.log(i);
phantom.exit();

Running:

phantomjs test.js

gives me exactly what I want. No error.



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[Ariya Hidayat]

> I already saw some related discussion here:
> http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/02/from-double-quotes-to-single-quotes.html

How's that blog post related to this issue(beside the fact that it
mentions quotes) is a mystery to me.

[j.rebhan]

Hi Ariya,

could you try that on the phantomjs console:

phantomjs> var i = "ab\"c";

I get: "SyntaxError: Parse Error" (phantom 1.6.1 on Win7).

Is there a different behavior on the command - line vs. script mode ?

Thanks

Rusco

PS: Your blogpost is not related to my problem at all.....

2012/9/13 Ariya Hidayat <ariya....@gmail.com>

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[Rusco]

The complete example is here:

https://gist.github.com/3715242


I wonder whether someone already tried to pass over some Json on the commandline to Phantomjs, on Node it seems to be pretty common.

Your blogpost uses a cleanup script, I probably have to write something like that as workaround.

[Ivan De Marino]

Most probably something wrong in the way the REPL parses the input.

Unfortunately that things needs some love to iron out those problems and I haven't got time since I work on GhostDriver.

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