From Torsten at robitzki.de  Thu Jul 19 08:09:26 2012
From: Torsten at robitzki.de (Torsten@Robitzki.de)
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:09:26 +0200
Subject: [Rake-devel] JSON.parse string
Message-ID: <3B98AEF6-F47C-4D08-ABFE-0F739F0E4B23@robitzki.de>

Hello,
I just stumbled over the fact, that the JSON parser from ruby 1.9.2 allows only arrays and objects:

> a = JSON.parse '"fooo"'
 JSON::ParserError: 710: unexpected token at '"fooo"'
> a = JSON.parse "[\"a\"]"
 => ["a"] 

As a workaround, I can wrap every text into an array and take the first element of the result:

    JSON.parse( "[#{a}]" )[ 0 ]

But I wonder if this is the intended behavior and if so, why?

Kind regards

Torsten