Question

Can someone pleas explain to me why json which contains a string with double quotes will break $.parseJSON?

This works:

[{"type":"message","content":{"user":"tomasa", "time":"1321722536", "text":"asdasdasd"}}]

This also works:

[{"type":"message","content":{"user":"tomasa", "time":"1321723267", "text":"""}}]

However this will cause $.jsonParse to not return anything (I am assuming becuase it is a malformed json string:

[{"user":"tomasa", "time":"1321723278", "text":""""}}]

Answer 1

You have an extra } at the end.

}}]

You should run troublesome JSON markup through http://jsonlint.com/

Parse error on line 6:
..."""    }}]
---------------------^
Expecting ',', ']'