Question

I have an AJAX call which returns a string which ideally should be an array of arrays

var jsonString = "[['name1', 30, 20], ['name2', 10, 100], ['name3', 140, 130]]";

This is what I get returned. I would like to convert it to an array of arrays

var jsonArray = [['name1', 30, 20], ['name2', 10, 100], ['name3', 140, 130]];

Obviously string.split(",") wont work and gives me an array with 9 elements.

How do I parse this?

My fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/codovations/hgLJh/

Answer 1

naveen I checked your string and if you are sure your string have ‘ instead of ” in array elements, you can replace them with ” and then you can just parse them as json:

JSON.parse('[["name1", 30, 20], ["name2", 10, 100], ["name3", 140, 130]]');

returns array of arrays.

Regards.