parseJSON() chokes on embedded tab

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$.parseJSON('[{"name":"a\tb"}]');

results in

SyntaxError: Unexpected token

[dmethvin]

The strings in JSON can't have control characters, as laid out pretty clearly in the diagrams at ​http://json.org. A tab is a control character. A "\t" in a JavaScript literal string is converted to a tab. If some tool had created that JSON it did not encode it correctly.

[anonymous]

pphp json_encode() will generate it.

And jsonlint.com will validate it.

Not that those are necessarily authoritative, but something to consider.

(P.S. I tried to paste some php+javascript code, but cannot. Is there a jsfiddle-like site for php?)

[dmethvin]

At some point your code is letting something change "\t" to a tab character. Please ask for help on a forum. This isn't a jQuery bug.