JSON string to JS object

Question

I am using a JS object to create graphs with Google visualization. I am trying to design the data source. At first, I created a JS object client-side.

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Answer 1

the string in your question is not a valid json string. From json.org website:

JSON is built on two structures:

* A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is 
  realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or
  associative array.
* An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an
  array, vector, list, or sequence.

Basically a json string will always start with either { or [.

Then as @Andy E and @Cryo said you can parse the string with json2.js or some other libraries.

IMHO you should avoid eval because it will any javascript program, so you might incur in security issues.