javascript eval and object evaluation

Question

I have a part of a debugging framework that needs to be able to run time eval objects.

Specifically, if I have a string like this \"{a: 1, b:2}\" it nee

Answer 1

You can do it using () to have it parse it as an object, rather than a statement, like this:

eval("(" + str + ")");

Though, you should use JSON.parse() first, if the browser supports it.