Question

I am using from Microsoft the
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It returns this type of variable for a contact but I don’t know of a simple way to read it, would perform split on it but do not know how to read this object:

{"id":"contact.0d3d6bf0000000000000000000000000", "first_name":"William", "last_name":"Shakespeare", "name":"William Shakespeare", "gender":null, "is_friend":false, "is_favorite":false, "user_id":"2ae098749083cb3d", "email_hashes":["a790b818acfdef744a23bef534dfd9a4a53aa834250bdfe55f6874543129daa6"], "updated_time":"2012-10-04T19:23:34+0000"}

I’d need to access name and email_hashes with what’s inside of it:
a790b818acfdef744a23bef534dfd9a4a53aa834250bdfe55f6874543129daa6 – without the brackets.

Just don’t know how to read this kind of object.

Answer 1

That looks like JSON. If you’re using jQuery, you could do something like this:

var jsonData = $.parseJSON('{"id":"contact..."}');
alert('name: ' + jsonData.id);

See the docs for more usage examples: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseJSON/