I've got something like this data that comes from API and I need to do JSON.parse this, but the problem was there were inner double quotes so I can't parse it what should I do, can I use regex or something.
const dataString = '{"EN" : "2. This English "Blha Blha" "Woo Woo" something wrong."}';
I also used this regex
replace(/(^"|"$)|"/g, "'");
but by using this regex it's replace all the double quotes with single quotes like this =>
{'EN' : '2. This English 'Blha Blha' 'Woo Woo' something wrong.'};
I only want to replace the quotes like this
{'EN' : '2. This English "Blha Blha" "Woo Woo" something wrong.'};
The thing is that single quotes are not valid symbols for JSON if they are used to wrap key/values. To make it clear - you need to escape double-quote symbols in values. A better approach is to update your API with that correction. More ugly but working way is placed below:
const dataString = '{"EN" : "2. This English "Blha Blha" "Woo Woo" something wrong."}';
const normalize = (dataString) => {
let newString = dataString;
newString = newString.replaceAll(`"`, `\\\"`);
newString = newString.replaceAll(`{\\\"`, `{"`);
newString = newString.replaceAll(`\\\"}`, `"}`);
newString = newString.replaceAll(`\\\" : \\\"`, `" : "`);
return newString;
};
console.log(JSON.parse(normalize(dataString)));