convert string to object from html input element-CodePudding

I have a textarea element which takes object types as an input like

  {
    name: "root",
    backlog: [
      {name: "log#1"},
      ]
    }

accessing the data returns it as a string

is there a simple way to convert the string to that specific javascript object without using regex filters? like just removing the outer quotation marks?

CodePudding user response：

use json5 or Relaxed JSON library.

here is example using json5 library

let string = `  {
    name: "root",
    backlog: [
      {name: "log#1"},
      ]
    }`;
    
 let object = JSON5.parse(string);
 console.log(object)

<script src="https://unpkg.com/json5@^2.0.0/dist/index.min.js"></script>

CodePudding user response：

If i understand you correctly :

const string = '{ name: "root", backlog: [{name: "log#1"}]}'
const jsonStr = string.replace(/(\w :)|(\w  :)/g, function(matchedStr) {
  return '"'   matchedStr.substring(0, matchedStr.length - 1)   '":';
});

const result = JSON.parse(jsonStr)
console.log(result)