Description: Takes a well-formed JSON string and returns the resulting JavaScript object.
Passing in a malformed JSON string will result in an exception being thrown. For example, the following are all malformed JSON strings:
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{test: 1}(test does not have double quotes around it). -
{'test': 1}('test' is using single quotes instead of double quotes).
Additionally if you pass in nothing, an empty string, null, or undefined, 'null' will be returned from parseJSON. Where the browser provides a native implementation of JSON.parse, jQuery uses it to parse the string. For details on the JSON format, see http://json.org/.
Example
Parse a JSON string.
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{"name":"John"}');
alert( obj.name === "John" );
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