Parsing string as JSON with single quotes?

Question

I have a string

str = \"{\'a\':1}\";
JSON.parse(str);
VM514:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token \'(…)

How can I parse the above stri

Answer 1

var str =  "{'a':1}";
str = str.replace(/'/g, '"')
obj = JSON.parse(str);
console.log(obj);

This solved the problem for me.