issue in parsing string to json about jsesc HOT 8 CLOSED

It seems you’re misunderstanding what jsesc does. What are you trying to do, exactly? Parsing a JSON-formatted string back into an object can be done using JSON.parse only.

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the issue is in this character \u0002, when using JSON.parse through exception

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I need to escape character \u0002

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I need to escape character \u0002

jsesc('\u0002');

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ok, this character included in this string
'{"account_id":111,"account_name":"test","interface_id":2,"request_id":0,"message_id":"6a23bbbe-1cfd-4ba5-8dfd-b3b7abb86576","source_addr":"Test TNT","destination_addr":"96892000730","coding":2,"concatenation":1,"message_text":"S3rvT3L20130NVBQakoiYHello, I hope you have a nice day. @\u0002#%!&/)(=?*+,","UDH":"","flash":0,"validaty_period":1440,"delivery_time":1440,"smpp_port":2012,"registered_delivery":1,"dlr_ip":"10.158.36.200","dlr_port":2051,"submit_sm_start_timestamp":"2015-01-06T05:40:05.042"}'

that I want parse it to JSON

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Use JSON.parse.

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when I use JSON.parse with this string, this error generated
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ^E
at Object.parse (native)

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How is jsonText generated? Generate it using jsesc so it is properly escaped (JSON-serialized data cannot contain literal control characters), then JSON.parse works fine.

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