regular expression add double quotes around values and keys in javascript

Question

i need a valid JSON format to request ES. i have a string like

{ 
time:  { 
          from:now-60d,
          mode:quick,
          to:now } 
}

but when i try to use JSON.parse i got error because my string should be like

 { 
time:  { 
          "from":"now-60d",
          "mode":"quick",
          "to":"now" } 
}

so my question, there is any solution to add double quotes around keys and values of my string ?

thanx

Answer 1

maybe you can use :

str.replace(/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+):([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/g, "\"$1\":\"$2\"");

Here is

regex demo

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Note

In the group [a-zA-Z0-9-] of characters i use alphabetical digits and a -, maybe you need other so you can use another one

Answer 2

This function will add quotes and remove any extra commas at the end of objects

function normalizeJson(str){return str.replace(/"?([\w_\- ]+)"?\s*?:\s*?"?(.*?)"?\s*?([,}\]])/gsi, (str, index, item, end) => '"'+index.replace(/"/gsi, '').trim()+'":"'+item.replace(/"/gsi, '').trim()+'"'+end).replace(/,\s*?([}\]])/gsi, '$1');}

Edit:

This other function supports json arrays.

It also converts single quotes to double quotes, and it keeps quotes off of numbers and booleans.

function normalizeJson(str){
    return str.replace(/[\s\n\r\t]/gs, '').replace(/,([}\]])/gs, '$1')
    .replace(/([,{\[]|)(?:("|'|)([\w_\- ]+)\2:|)("|'|)(.*?)\4([,}\]])/gs, (str, start, q1, index, q2, item, end) => {
        item = item.replace(/"/gsi, '').trim();
        if(index){index = '"'+index.replace(/"/gsi, '').trim()+'"';}
        if(!item.match(/^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+|)$/) && !['true','false'].includes(item)){item = '"'+item+'"';}
        if(index){return start+index+':'+item+end;}
        return start+item+end;
    });
}

I also tested the regex with the safe-regex npm module