On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Vineet Deodhar <d_vin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Opera Dragonfly shows this error:-- > > Uncaught exception: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: Unable to parse value: A,B,C > Error thrown at line 3, column 0 in http://127.0.0.1:8000/mywheels/test/cat: > var ctg = JSON.parse(["A", "B", "C"]); > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I validated this json -- ["A", "B", "C"] in jsonlint.com > It is valid json. > > Why the method "JSON.parse" is unable to parse JSON?
It takes a *string* containing JSON. You want: var ctg = JSON.parse('["A", "B", "C"]');// note outer quotes! Think about it: If you already had ["A", "B", "C"] in the first place, then you could just do: var ctg = ["A", "B", "C"]; And JSON would never enter into the discussion. Your issue is akin to confusing the following two outputs: Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 12 2011, 13:35:00) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'foo' # expression resulting in the string 'foo' >>> print 'foo' # contents of the string foo Regards, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list