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JavaScript

Posted by Ryan Scharfer
Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points

How do I parse this JSON?

[
    {
        "name": "Emma de Milliano",
        "sex": "f"
    },
    {
        "name": "Carolus Haverbeke",
        "sex": "m"
    }
]

I know above is valid JSON. Now, if I want to parse this, how do I do it? I tried making the whole thing a string by surrounding it in quotation marks, but when I pass the result in as an argument to JSON.parse(), I get an error.

Ryan Scharfer
Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points

I figured it out. I was trying to parse the JSON in the console without the code all on a single line. It was formatted just like it was above, and for some reason the console did not read it as a string. When I deleted the new lines and condensed the code to one line, it worked.

1 Answer

mikes02
PLUS
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points
mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Not sure what you were trying to do exactly, but would something like this work?

var employees = [
    {"Name":"Emma de Milliano", "Sex":"F"},
    {"Name":"Carolus Haverbeke", "Sex":"M"}
];
console.log(JSON.stringify(employees))