I keep getting “Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o”

Question

I\'m trying to learn some html/css/javascript, so I\'m writing myself a teaching project.

The idea was to have some vocabulary contained in a json file which would t

Answer 1

The problem is very simple

jQuery.get('wokab.json', function(data) {
    var glacier = JSON.parse(data);
});

You're parsing it twice. get uses the dataType='json', so data is already in json format. Use $.ajax({ dataType: 'json' ... to specifically set the returned data type!