Error while parsing JSON nodejs

Question

The following data is retrieved from the MongoDB

console.log(x)

The output

{ _id: 54473495721e8a7386959897,
  tag: 'java',
  data: 
   [ 
     { view: '2342343', date: '2001/1/25' }
   ]
}

While parsing using JSON.parse

var dataJson = JSON.parse(x);

it thwors the below error

undefined:1
{ _id: 54473495721e8a7386959897,
  ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token _
    at Object.parse (native)

Muhammad Ali · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27 07:31:21Z

1

white space gives error in JSON replace it first

x = x.replace(/\s/g, '');
x = JSON.stringify(x);
x = JSON.parse(x);

answered Oct 27, 2014 at 7:31

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mscdex · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27 05:37:12Z

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It is already an javascript object so dont need parsing, do you want to convert it as json string?

if yes you can convert to JSON with

  JSON.stringify(x);

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answered Oct 27, 2014 at 4:49

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