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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Help with  JSON.parse
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:44:05 +0000
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Bint <bint@ign.com> writes:

>   I don't have a whole lot of experience with JSON.  I am trying to return a
> two-dimensional array from PHP to Javascript.  The array contains some
> strings, however, which seem to screw up the JSON parsing.  The strings
> contain parenthesis which I guess JSON uses.
>
> But shouldn't the JSON_encode call take care of that?  I'm confusing.
>
> So I have an array.  Here are two entries, where each entry has three
> sub-strings.
>
> "(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:43:00","this is string 1."
> "(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:42:26","this is string 2"
>
> I json_encode that from PHP. But when I use JSON.Parse back in Javascript, I
> get an error: SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unexpected token '('

The problem is somewhere in the code, and you don't show any code!  This
PHP:

  $a = [
       ["(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:43:00","this is string 1."],
       ["(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:42:26","this is string 2"]
  ];
  echo json_encode($a);

correctly outputs (sorry about the long line):

[["(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:43:00","this is string 1."],["(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:42:26","this is string 2"]]

And this is correctly parsed by JSON.parse:

JSON.parse('[["(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:43:00","this is string 1."],["(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)","2015-01-06 15:42:26","this is string 2"]]')

produces:

[ [ '(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)',
    '2015-01-06 15:43:00',
    'this is string 1.' ],
  [ '(Jan 7, 2015 0:42AM)',
    '2015-01-06 15:42:26',
    'this is string 2' ] ]

I suspect some problem to do with quotes in the way you get the string
from PHP to JavaScript.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.