parsin json fails

[mike cardeiro]

I am opening a socket ant getting a doc with json over the net.  heres a code snipet.

		response	=  conn.read();
			lines		= response.split(/\n/);
			var j		= lines[lines.length-1];
			conn.close();
			j = eval(j);

(why the hell I cant paste into here without it becoming a table I'll never know)

if I chane the last line to alert(j) it shows me the correct json string.  When I do eval(j) I get the message "unable to execute script at line 1 ; expected

am I missing something here?

[Dan Ebberts · Accepted solution]

Just for fun, try this:

eval("(" + j + ")");

Dan

[mike cardeiro]

holy sh*t, I can't beleive that actually works...can you explain why (just curious)

Mike Cardeiro

[Dan Ebberts]

Just Google "javascript eval json". I think the best answer is the one from stackoverflow (fourth from the top). Read the top few responses.

Dan