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Question

I have a textbox that posts info to the server and it's in JSON format. Lets say I want to enter two quotes for the value, and the JSON struct would look like:

{
    "test": """"
}

I need it to look like:

{
    "test": "\"\""
}

so it will follow JSON standards and can be parsable/stringifyable.

I tried using

 var val = myVal.replace('"', "\\\"");

but this didn't work. val ends up with only one escaped quote like so \""Any help is much appreciated!

Accepted Answer

My answer makes some assumptions, as I've had to fill in the rather sizeable gaps in your question:

The user will enter a text string into a textbox;
Your script will read the textbox contents, and use those contents as the value of one of the items in a JSON string that it's building;
The script sends this resulting JSON string to the server somehow.

If I've got that right, let's proceed...

Baseline code

So, with some placeholders, you're doing:

function get_contents_of_textbox() {
   // Dummy data for example
   return 'My mum pushed and I said "Hello World"!';
}

function send_to_server(json_str) {
   // Dummy action: display JSON string
   console.log(json_str);
}

var myVal = get_contents_of_textbox();
var JSON  = '{ "test": "' + myVal + '" }';
send_to_server(JSON);

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How to Replace " with \" in Javascript

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Baseline code

Live demo, showing the malformed JSON.

Elena Rostova