javascript split and JSON.parse

Question

I want to parse array in JSON format using javascript. I have written following code.

var data = "abc, xyz, pqr";
var data_array = data.split(',');

var data_parsed = JSON.parse(data_array);
alert(data_parsed);

It gives me the error of JSON.parse I have no idea how to resolve this javascript error.

Solution

You don't have any JSON, so don't use JSON.parse. Once you split you already have an array whose elements could be used directly:

var data = "abc, xyz, pqr";
var data_array = data.split(',');
alert(data_array[0]);

and if you want to convert this array to a JSON string you could do this:

var json = JSON.stringify(data_array);
alert(json);