Question

I want to add JSON data with the following string value:

json = "d:\xyz\abc";

This value is coming from a database at runtime. When I am going to display it in datatable, JSON formatting error is displayed. My requirement is that the above value will be displayed as it is in the datatable. Please help.

Answer 1

You’d better use a JSON library for your programming language. You don’t retrieve database values directly with jquery, aren’t you?

So, you’d use something like JSON.escape(my_string_from_db), or, in Ruby language I usually do my_string.to_json.

This will automatically escape everything that needs to be escaped.