Convert JS object to JSON string

Question

If I defined an object in JS with:

var j={\"name\":\"binchen\"};

How can I convert the object to JSON? The output string should be:

Answer 1

The existing JSON replacements where too much for me, so I wrote my own function. This seems to work, but I might have missed several edge cases (that don't occur in my project). And will probably not work for any pre-existing objects, only for self-made data.

function simpleJSONstringify(obj) {
    var prop, str, val,
        isArray = obj instanceof Array;

    if (typeof obj !== "object") return false;

    str = isArray ? "[" : "{";

    function quote(str) {
        if (typeof str !== "string") str = str.toString();
        return str.match(/^\".*\"$/) ? str : '"' + str.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"'
    }

    for (prop in obj) {
        if (!isArray) {
            // quote property
            str += quote(prop) + ": ";
        }

        // quote value
        val = obj[prop];
        str += typeof val === "object" ? simpleJSONstringify(val) : quote(val);
        str += ", ";
    }

    // Remove last colon, close bracket
    str = str.substr(0, str.length - 2)  + ( isArray ? "]" : "}" );

    return str;
}