Remove Backslashes from Json Data in JavaScript

Question

Remove Backslashes from JSON Data in JavaScript or jQuery

var str = "{"data":"{\n \"taskNames\" : [\n \"01 Jan\",\n \"02 Jan\",\n \"03 Jan\",\n \"04 Jan\",\n \"05 Jan\",\n \"06 Jan\",\n \"07 Jan\",\n \"08 Jan\",\n \"09 Jan\",\n \"10 Jan\",\n \"11 Jan\",\n \"12 Jan\",\n \"13 Jan\",\n \"14 Jan\",\n \"15 Jan\",\n \"16 Jan\",\n \"17 Jan\",\n \"18 Jan\",\n \"19 Jan\",\n \"20 Jan\",\n \"21 Jan\",\n \"22 Jan\",\n \"23 Jan\",\n \"24 Jan\",\n \"25 Jan\",\n \"26 Jan\",\n \"27 Jan\"]}  var finalData = str.replace("\\", ""); 

but this does not work for me. Any help?

Answer 1

Your string is invalid, but assuming it was valid, you'd have to do:

var finalData = str.replace(/\\/g, ""); 

When you want to replace all the occurences with .replace, the first parameter must be a regex, if you supply a string, only the first occurrence will be replaced, that's why your replace wouldn't work.

Cheers

Answer 2

tl;dr: You don't have to remove the slashes, you have nested JSON, and hence have to decode the JSON twice: DEMO (note I used double slashes in the example, because the JSON is inside a JS string literal).

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I assume that your actual JSON looks like

{"data":"{\n \"taskNames\" : [\n \"01 Jan\",\n \"02 Jan\",\n \"03 Jan\",\n \"04 Jan\",\n \"05 Jan\",\n \"06 Jan\",\n \"07 Jan\",\n \"08 Jan\",\n \"09 Jan\",\n \"10 Jan\",\n \"11 Jan\",\n \"12 Jan\",\n \"13 Jan\",\n \"14 Jan\",\n \"15 Jan\",\n \"16 Jan\",\n \"17 Jan\",\n \"18 Jan\",\n \"19 Jan\",\n \"20 Jan\",\n \"21 Jan\",\n \"22 Jan\",\n \"23 Jan\",\n \"24 Jan\",\n \"25 Jan\",\n \"26 Jan\",\n \"27 Jan\"]}"} 

I.e. you have a top level object with one key, data. The value of that key is a string containing JSON itself. This is usually because the server side code didn't properly create the JSON. That's why you see the \" inside the string. This lets the parser know that " is to be treated literally and doesn't terminate the string.

So you can either fix the server side code, so that you don't double encode the data, or you have to decode the JSON twice, e.g.

var data = JSON.parse(JSON.parse(json).data));