automatic escape quotes in json

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From server i get json. Json is very big. I show litle piece of this

...

{
                    "id": "9429531978965160",
                    "name": "Morning in  "Paris"",  // json.net cannot deserialize this line, because line have no escaped quotes.
                    "alias": "ThisAlias"

},

....

After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: L. Path 'result[16].children[7].name', line 1, position 51081.

Posted 29-Mar-13 1:53am

Radzhab

Updated 9-Mar-17 1:28am

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E.F. Nijboer · Answer 1 · 2013-03-29T02:14:00

Solution 1

Looks like the server gives you faulty json. You can easily check the json here:
http://jsonlint.com/[^]

Good luck!

Posted 29-Mar-13 2:14am

E.F. Nijboer

Karthik Boominathan · Answer 2 · 2017-03-09T01:28:00

Solution 2

use this \" string escape .

{
                    "id": "9429531978965160",
                    "name": "Morning in  \"Paris\"",  
                    "alias": "ThisAlias"

},

Posted 9-Mar-17 1:28am

Karthik Boominathan

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CHill60 9-Mar-17 8:44am

Question is 4 years old and the original post already mentions the string escape as being the problem. OP is also not generating this JSON - it's coming from elsewhere