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Petroff
Petroff

Reputation: 828

Regex Replace Double Double Quotes in json

Is it possible to replace double double quotes in case like this ""something"", in json where empty value is possible case("somthingElse":"")?

I tried with str = str.replace( /\""/g, '"' ), but this one replace the empty value in my json and i get syntax error.

Example: {"name":"name","price":"","job":""Developer""}

Result: {"name":"name","price":","job":"Developer"}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 988

Answers (1)

Benjamin Gruenbaum
Benjamin Gruenbaum

Reputation: 276296

This is impossible to parse, since the grammar is ambiguous and a result can be interpreted in two different ways. If we replace Developer in your example with a hand crafted value "", "Developer":"" we get:

{"name":"name","price":"","job":"", "Developer":""}

Which means developer is a field. So unless you can guarantee " does not appear in the string the grammar is ambiguous.

Fix your backend instead :)

If I had to guess your backend is hand-making JSON, I've yet to see a case where this is preferable to using a serialization library.

Upvotes: 2

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