[SOLVED] how to fix 'unterminated string literal' error

pizzipie · 07-05-2017, 01:16 PM

I am trying to write a jsfiddle program and need to NOT have my AJAX call in the script so:

I copied the firebug response from my script that used an AJAX call with type 'json' as the returned data . I'm assuming this value is a json object.

I want to assign this response (shown in bold below) to a var (data) and pass it to a function as below:

I am getting syntax error: unterminated string literal.

How can I fix this.

var data={"0":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder","2":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/Pictures","3":"\/home
\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/Pictures\/folder1","5":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/folder1","6"
:"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/folder1\/anotherFolder","4":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\
/folder2","1":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/folder3"}

I have tried adding single quotes and concatenation to solve this but that doesn't work, at least the way I'm trying to do it.

Code:

var data='{"0":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder","2":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures","3":"/home';
data+='/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures/folder1","5":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder1","6"';
data+=':"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder1/anotherFolder","4":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder';
data+='folder2","1":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder3"}';

showDirs(data); // substitute for request.done(showDirs); in AJAX

// ========================== FUNCTION showDirs() ==================

function showDirs(data) { .........

sundialsvcs · 07-05-2017, 02:24 PM

This is basically a JSON response-string, and what I think that I'd do is to create the corresponding array, however you want to do that, then ask JavaScript to JSON-encode it for you.

pizzipie · 07-05-2017, 03:16 PM

Thanks for the reply 'sundialsvcs',

How would you do that? Everything I try when assigning this to a var or function gives me the error.

original response:

{"0":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder","2":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/Pictures","3":"\/home
\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/Pictures\/folder1","5":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/folder1","6"
:"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/folder1\/anotherFolder","4":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\
/folder2","1":"\/home\/rick\/Desktop\/testFolder\/folder3"}

response without backslashes assigned to data:

var data={"0":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder","2":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures","3":"/home
/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures/folder1","5":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder1","6"
:"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder1/anotherFolder","4":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder
folder2","1":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder3"};

Shouldn't this assign a javascript object to data???

Code:

var result = [];

for(var i in data) {
    result.push([i, data [i]]);
    alert(result[i]);
 }

result of this code:

SyntaxError: unterminated string literal

estFolder","2":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures","3":"/home

pizzipie · 07-05-2017, 03:25 PM

[SOLVED]

I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!

var data={"0":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder",
"2":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures",
"3":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/Pictures/folder1",
"5":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder1",
"6":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder1/anotherFolder",
"4":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolderfolder2",
"1":"/home/rick/Desktop/testFolder/folder3"};

Thanks again 'sundialsvcs',

R

hydrurga · 07-05-2017, 03:40 PM

Glad you got it worked out.

Can you please mark the thread as "Solved" (see "Thread Tools" at the top of this thread).

Also, note the missing slash after "testFolder" in the "4" variable.

pizzipie · 07-05-2017, 08:03 PM

Thanks hydrurga,

I clicked on Threads solved but don't see anything here immediately.

R