Alternatives to JavaScript eval() for parsing JSON

Question

Quick Question. Eval in JavaScript is unsafe is it not? I have a JSON object as a string and I need to turn it into an actual object so I can obtain the data:

Answer 1

Another great alternative is YUI: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/json/

So your code would be something like:

Y.JSON.parse('{"id": 15, "name": "something"}');