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Codeninja
Codeninja

Reputation: 75

How to escape backslash in json object key

I want to reference this json key : Added Date/Time

{{ contact.["Added Date\\Time"] }}

Why isn't this working?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8490

Answers (2)

CouchDeveloper
CouchDeveloper

Reputation: 19106

Because the string literal does not match the required key. You need to ensure that the string literal in your source code matches the actual JSON key.

In most languages, this character sequence will do it: Added Date/Time. (there is no escaping required).

Note, this string is NOT a JSON string - it's a string literal in your programming language. Thus, this string must obey the escaping rules of your current programming language, not the rules of JSON.

Upvotes: 1

cijagani
cijagani

Reputation: 523

If you want to include a literal double quote in a JSON string, you must escape it by preceding it with a backslash . So your JSON string would have to look like this: {"key" : " \"Some text WITH quotes\" "}

See json.org for the official JSON syntax.

The forward slash / is not a special character and does not need to be escaped. The backslash \ needs to be escaped with itself: \\.

Upvotes: 4

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