How do I handle newlines in JSON?

Question

I\'ve generated some JSON and I\'m trying to pull it into an object in JavaScript. I keep getting errors. Here\'s what I have:

var data = \'{\"count\" : 1, \         


        

Answer 1

You will need to have a function which replaces \n to \\n in case data is not a string literal.

function jsonEscape(str)  {
    return str.replace(/\n/g, "\\\\n").replace(/\r/g, "\\\\r").replace(/\t/g, "\\\\t");
}

var data = '{"count" : 1, "stack" : "sometext\n\n"}';
var dataObj = JSON.parse(jsonEscape(data));

Resulting dataObj will be

Object {count: 1, stack: "sometext\n\n"}