Javascript: Convert string to object

Question

How can i convert this string into object so that i can access it's property like obj.Name ?

{
 Name = Mahbubr Rahman, 
 Gender = Male, 
 Birthday = 1 / 5 / 1992 6: 00: 00 AM, 
 Email = mahbubur.rahman@ rms.com, 
 EmployeeType = Manager
}

I have tried with JSON.parse() and eval but getting nothing. Any help ?

var obj = JSON.parse(
 JSON.stringify('{ Name = Mahbubr Rahman,Gender = Male, Birthday = 1/5/1992 6:00:00 AM, Email = [email protected], EmployeeType = Manager }'.replace(/=/g, ':'))
);

• Rory McCrossan: Can you not change the format the strings are stored in to be valid JSON? Then you could just use JSON.parse(). Having to hack around a string in to the right format seems to be fixing the wrong part of the problem.

Answer 1

try this one as well

var str = "{ Name = Mahbubr Rahman,Gender = Male, Birthday = 1/5/1992 6:00:00 AM, Email = [email protected], EmployeeType = Manager }"
var obj = JSON.parse(str.split(/\s*=\s*/).join("\":\"").split(/\s*,\s*/).join("\",\"").split(/{\s*/).join("{\"").split(/\s*}/).join("\"}"));
console.log(obj);

Answer 2

You can try something like this:

var str = '{ Name = Mahbubr Rahman,Gender = Male, Birthday = 1/5/1992 6:00:00 AM, Email = [email protected], EmployeeType = Manager }';
str = str.replace(/=/g, '\":\"');
str = str.replace(/,/g, "\", \"");
str = str.replace(/{/g, "{\"");
str = str.replace(/}/g, "\"}");
console.log(str);
var obj = JSON.parse(str);
console.log(obj);

Answer 3

You can do it like following. Wrap all property name and value with double quotes (") and replace = with :.

var st = '{ Name = Mahbubr Rahman, Gender = Male, Birthday = 1/5/1992 6:00:00 AM, Email = [email protected], EmployeeType = Manager }';
st = st.replace(/=/g, '":"');
st = st.replace(/{/g, '{"');
st = st.replace(/}/g, '"}');
st = st.replace(/,/g, '","');
var obj = JSON.parse(st);
console.log(obj);