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Dear community users,

I am currently facing an annoying issue with one of my clients.

I am trying to find a way to cleanly escape unallowed JSON characters in value fields.

Example of malformed JSON coming from backend (double quotes)

{
"key1": "value 1",
"key2": "valu"e 2"
}

correction wanted
{
"key1": "value 1",
"key2": "valu\"e 2"
}

I managed to deal with the problem with a regular expression but my solution doesn't work if there are mutiple double quotes in the same value.
Here is the expression I used : (: ?"[^"]*)("[^"]*)(",?)
Replacement: $1\\$2$3

Do you have any clean and robust solution to this problem ?

Thank you very much,

Nicolas,

I looked online and found the following article: java - How to escape double quote in the json - Stack Overflow . I tested the suggested regex ([a-zA-Z0-9])(\")([a-zA-Z0-9]) with the replacement $1\\$2$3 you provided. The results from the testing appear to do what you are looking for.

Sincerely,

Stephen Hughes

Director, CA Support