Parsing string as JSON with single quotes?

Question

I have a string

str = \"{\'a\':1}\";
JSON.parse(str);
VM514:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token \'(…)

How can I parse the above stri

Answer 1

Something like this:

var div = document.getElementById("result");

var str = "{'a':1}";
  str = str.replace(/\'/g, '"');
  var parsed = JSON.parse(str);
  console.log(parsed);
  div.innerText = parsed.a;