Unable to parse JSON, uncaught syntax error?

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I am trying to parse the following JSON:

06-22 18:49:17.182: ERROR/HTMLContacts(2716): Json:
[{"contactId":"1","contactPhoto":"SIkADAjz94lQTkcNChoKAAAADUlIRFIAAABgAAAAYAgCAAAAbfrgbwAAAANzQklUBQYFMwuNgAAA\nHuhJREFUeJztfU2LJLuS5ZlGAcfAEyTIggy4D14uZjGznB87q9nO75nFwMyiG+rBuxAJN0GCdLAD\nocUsTHL3yMisj3vvm6abFkVVVoRcLpns85hJ+Z/+53//Hw4g4djUoS50oEsdANwF+PnLmaQ60IEE... }

It is a huge string array with an array length of almost 10,000.

I get the following error message:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL -- From line 1 of file:///android_asset/www/index.html

Could someone explain what is happening?

Thanks , yes there is an issue and i am tring to figure out "contactPhoto": "SIkADAjz94lQTkcNCho -----------------------^ Expecting 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '[' — Preethi
– Preethi, Commented Jun 23, 2011 at 17:50
Well, jsonlint.com tells you where and what the error is. You should fix it. As we have no access to the whole data, we cannot help you more. — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Jun 23, 2011 at 18:39

thescientist · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-23 17:31:27Z

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I can't make any sense of that at all. Have you tried validating your JSON first though? http://jsonlint.com/

answered Jun 23, 2011 at 17:31

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Preethi Over a year ago

I tried validating the json .This is the error message "contactPhoto": "SIkADAjz94lQTkcNCho -----------------------^ Expecting 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '[' ..any help ? i am not able to get it

thescientist Over a year ago

so are you missing a closing quote then?

user2547151 · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-03 15:06:47Z

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I had the same problem with my phoneGap app running on MC40 android 2.3 and all I had to do is replace JSON.parse with $.parseJSON .Apparently JSON.parse has compatibility issues with older browsers.

answered Jul 3, 2013 at 15:06

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David Glass · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-23 18:52:12Z

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Unescaped character that JavaScript isn't liking. Make sure it can take any character you receive.

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thescientist Over a year ago

Java? you mean javascript?

Miguel · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-07 17:40:02Z

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Make sure there are no tabs in there by replacing them with \t.

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answered Nov 7, 2012 at 17:16

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