Question

Which would be best way to do these things?

Note: My array contains complex values means comma separated or object values in side string array & Arrays string quoted in double quotes and elements are in single quotes.

EX. str = "['sam', 'admin', '1062', 'Sam', 'True', '$$global_permissions#1062:manage_replenishment,purchase_order,reprint_invoice#1008', '[e-mail]', '9920580', 'en', '358', '{\"Sales-tax-details\":\"brand,category,supplierNo\",\"invoice-logs\":\"invoiceNo,eventDateTime,event\"}']"

Here i played with JSON.parse,

JSON.parse(str);
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ' // this error i got on console

Then i tried,

JSON.parse(str.replace(/'/g, '"'))
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token S  // this error i got on console

One more thing i wanted to explore here as,
if str contains following elements,

str = "['sam', 'admin', '1062', 'Sam', 'True', '$$global_permissions#1062:manage_replenishment,purchase_order,reprint_invoice#1008', '[e-mail]', '9920580', 'en', '358', '{}']"

for this str i tried,

JSON.parse(str.replace(/'/g, '"'))

Its working fine here,

Regards.

Answer 1

Perhaps,

JSON.parse('["a", "b", "c"]');

EDIT: For the EX. str from the question, the following should work:

JSON.parse(str.replace(/'{/g, "{").replace(/}'/g, "}").replace(/'/g, "\"").replace(/\\\"/g, "'"))