How to prevent removing decimal point when parsing JSON?

Question

If you do this...

var parsed = JSON.parse(\'{\"myNum\":0.0}\') ;

Then when you look at parsed.myNum, you just get 0

Answer 1

If 0.0 is not enclosed in quotes in your JSON (i.e. it's a number and not a string), then there's no way to distinguish it from 0, unless you write your own JSON parser.