Reputation: 23
I have a string received from a database call as follows:
"[{'url':'https://www.example.com/','category':'popular'},{'url':'https://example2.com/','category':'new'}]"
I would like to parse the string into a typescript/JS array so that it is as follows:
[
{'url':'https://www.example.com/','category':'popular'},
{'url':'https://example2.com/','category':'new'}
]
How can I go about doing this? JSON.parse won't work as the string does not resemble a stringified JSON. Thanks!
Upvotes: 2
Views: 31
Reputation: 650
Replace single quotes with double quotes then JSON.parse
JSON.parse(
"[{'url':'https://www.example.com/','category':'popular'},{'url':'https://example2.com/','category':'new'}]"
.replace(/\'/g, '"')
)
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 72967
Assuming there are no strings in it containing '
, you can replace all occurrences of the single quote with double quotes, then you can parse it:
const str = "[{'url':'https://www.example.com/','category':'popular'},{'url':'https://example2.com/','category':'new'}]";
const arr = JSON.parse(str.replace(/'/g,'"'));
console.log(arr);
Upvotes: 4