Angular http get returns string in extra quotes

Question

My project is a mixture of AngularJS and ASP.Net MVC.

I am using $http.get to call my api controller, which returns a string. But in the .success function, the data is getting returned like so "/"my string/"" (with the extra quotes around it).

Why are those there, and how can I get rid of them?

I need them gone because I am setting the title attribute of an element to the string that is returned, and this makes the tooltip have quotes around it (ugly).

Answer 1

parse the string value using JSON.parse(variable)