How to convert environment variable to JSON object?

Question

This is my environment variable:

export DATA='{firstName: "OAMAR", lastName: "KANJI"}'

process.env.DATA sees this as a string but doing something like JSON.parse(process.env.DATA) does not work as the keys in the object are not strings. I.e something like JSON.parse('{"firstName": "OAMAR", "lastName": "KANJI"}') would work but this is not the form of the environment variable.

Any ideas on how to convert the string to JSON?

• Barmar: Strings in JSON have to be in double quotes, not single quotes, so 'OAMAR' is wrong as well.
• Barmar: Why not just make your environment variable valid JSON? The only thing built-in that will parse something like this is eval(), but that's dangerous.
• Oamar Kanji: @Barmar thank you, i will edit that in my question and make a personal note of that. As for entering valid json, it returns an error when I source my .env file
• Barmar: export DATA='{"firstName": "OAMAR", "lastName": "KANJI"}' should not cause an error.

Answer 1

export DATA='{"firstName": "OAMAR", "lastName": "KANJI"}'

change your format then used like

var foo =JSON.parse(DATA);

Answer 2

You can try converting your string to a valid JSON String then change it back to JSON

const Data ='{firstName: "OAMAR", lastName: "KANJI"}';
const output = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(Data));
console.log(output);