Trying to parse JSON file with jQuery

Question

I am trying to parse a JSON file with the exact stucture as in the following.

{
    \"students\": {
        \"student\": [
            {
                \"id         


        

Answer 1

You are not accessing the correct element. data does not point to students, it points to the outer most element {students:...} (students is an property of it). The array is contained in data.students.student:

$.each(data.students.student, function() {
    //...
});

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Further notes:

• You don't need to create a local variable if you access a property only once (but of course it might be more readable).

• While having consecutive semicolons ;; is not wrong, it is unnecessary and confusing (at least it confuses me ;))