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badunk
badunk

Reputation: 4350

Browser JSON vs node JSON

I'm attempting to serialize a string that contains escaped strings into JSON. I would have imagined that JSON.stringify() would correctly re-escape those strings and allow me to JSON.parse it. In a simple case, for example:

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify("\\"))

The output from node is "\". The output from the browser is "\" - it seems the browser (chrome in my case) is not correctly converting the double backslash \\ into \\\\.

Why is that?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 323

Answers (1)

xdazz
xdazz

Reputation: 160883

When you write code, you have to write "\\" (because backslash self is used as escaping), which is a string contains only one backslash ("\\".length is 1).

But when displayed in console or browser, it will displayed as "\".

Upvotes: 2

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