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

try to use

var text = myObject.parse.text['*']

Answer 2

You could do:

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

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

Answer 3

Try use the index operator on parse.text:

var value = object.parse.text["*"];

Answer 4

json.parse.text["*"]

Yucky name for an object member.