JSON: how to deal with double quotations?

Question

I'm using SBJson to parse by JSON string. Some requests return somethink like this:

{
"jsonResponse":[{  
"id":"2",  
"name":"Somename",  
"title":"Json problem:"ErrorParsing"", //problem is here. with double quotations. how to remove them or remove error? When i delete brackets before and after ErrorParsing, it works good.  
"otherinfo":"blabla",  
}]
}

I’m not sure what you mean by double brackets. At any rate, that’s not a valid JSON string so it could be a problem in the Web service you’re using. — , Sep 13 '11 at 14:00
Double brackets it's brackets in brackets, something like: "Hello "World"" — Timur Mustafaev, Sep 13 '11 at 14:01
Fixed the question. He didn't mean brackets but quotation marks. — znq, Aug 22 '12 at 10:40

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '11 at 14:05

Those aren’t brackets; they’re (double) quotes/quotation marks. In valid JSON, quotation marks inside strings must be escaped with \, e.g. "Hello \"World\"".

The Web service you’re using is returning invalid JSON.

http://jsonlint.com is a useful resource to validate JSON strings.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '11 at 14:02

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I believe you mean "double quotes," not "double brackets." You'll need to use different quotes there, so something like:

"title":"Json problem:'ErrorParsing'"

answered Sep 13 '11 at 14:02

Tim

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I can't contol web response, i receive it, and I need to parse it:) – Timur Mustafaev Sep 13 '11 at 14:05
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In that case (and in agreement with @Bavarious' answer), you're **not** receiving valid JSON. You'll need to work around this problem with the Web service. – Tim Sep 13 '11 at 16:46

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '16 at 07:55

Correct json must be

{
"jsonResponse":[{  
"id":"2",  
"name":"Somename",  
"title":"Json problem:\"ErrorParsing\"", //problem is here. with double quotations. how to remove them or remove error? When i delete brackets before and after ErrorParsing, it works good.  
"otherinfo":"blabla",  
}]
}

I think you got the point

JSON: how to deal with double quotations?

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