JSON - Access field named '*' asterisk

Question

I am trying to access a field in a json object in javascript which has the key \'*\'. The jsonstring looks like this:

{\"parse\":
 {\"text\":
  {\"*\":\"text         


        

Answer 1

You could do:

var json = {"parse":
 {"text":
  {"*":"text i want to access"}
 }
}

alert(json.parse.text['*']);