[Rake-devel] JSON.parse string

[Torsten@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