Question

I have a JSON string which I’m passing to a function.
The string is dynamically generated and may contain different “name” parameters.
It looks like this (formatted for easier reading):

<cfset x = "
    series: [
       {
           name:inbounds,
           data:
              [
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,1),0],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,2),0],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,3),0]
              ]
       },
       {
           name:outbounds,
           data:
              [
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,1),0],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,2),0],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,3),0]
              ]
       },
       {
           name:api,
           data:
              [
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,1),441],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,2),441],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,3),443]
              ]
       },
       {
           name:excess,
           data:
              [
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,1),0],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,2),0],
                 [Date.UTC(2012,4,3),0]
              ]
       }
    ] 
">

However, I need the value of the “name” parameter to have single quotes around it,
e.g. Instead of name:inbounds, I need name:'inbounds'
So, I need something that will search through this string, locate the name parameter and put single quotes around its value.

EDIT

THe reason I’m doing it this way is because after I call serializeJSON on an array, it generates the following (shorted for snapshot):

[{"NAME":"Excess","DATA":[["Date.UTC(2012,5,1)",0],......

CF puts everything in double quotes. THe Highcharts API I’m using doesn’t want it like this.
So, I get rid of the double quotes with

<cfset x = replace(x, """", "", "all")>

Then I need to add back single quotes on the string vars.

If there’s a better way, I’m open to it.

Answer 1

If you must do it with Regex then this should work

reReplace(json, "\bname\b.*?:([^,]+)", "name:'\1'", "All")