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Gaurav
Gaurav

Reputation: 29

JSON.parse not able to parse (Unexpected Token)

JSON.parse returns back error:

# Ruby code in IRB
require 'json'
time_now = t.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT")
hash = '"date":' + time_now.to_s
hash_json = JSON.parse(hash)

Error:

JSON::ParserError: 743: unexpected token at 'Sun, 14 May 2017 21:19:02 GMT'

My need is to have a JSON hash that has a Key/Value as:

# JSON hash
"date": "Sun, 14 May 2017 21:19:02 GMT"

Any insight ? I've tried this in a few ways, but running into same issue each time.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 585

Answers (3)

Paul Coleman
Paul Coleman

Reputation: 475

You are not creating the hash correctly. This is incorrect:

hash = {'"date":' + time_now}

It should be:

hash = {'date' => time_now}

Upvotes: 0

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 29

Json parsing when you can use , data contain json structure ; so , hash = '"date":' + time_now.to_s problem here 

hash = {"date"=> time_now.to_s}

Upvotes: -1

murjax
murjax

Reputation: 53

Your hash needs to be defined like this: hash = {"date" => time_now}.

In addition, JSON.parse returns a hash from a JSON formatted string. Hash has a method to_json which does the opposite:

require 'json'
time_now = Time.now.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT")
hash = {'date' => time_now}
hash_json = hash.to_json

Upvotes: 2

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