JSON Object Parse - json

Question

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Not sure what's missing. The other discussion solutions seem too complicated compared to my homework question:
Q:
-The variable str_json has been assigned a string of a JSON object
-Call the parse method, pass it str_json and assign the return value to variable jsonobj
-Assign the property the_city to the variable v_the_city
-Assign the property stateval to the variable v_stateval
var str_json = {'v_the_city':'the_city','v_stateval':'stateval'};
var jsonobj = JSON.parse(str_json);
SyntaxError:
the JSON dataJSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 2 of
SyntaxError: unexpected token: identifier

Answer 1

str_json should be a JSON string, not an object.
The JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string, constructing the JavaScript value or object described by the string. An optional reviver function can be provided to perform a transformation on the resulting object before it is returned. Read more here, link.
Syntax:
JSON.parse(text[, reviver])
Parameters:
text - The string to parse as JSON. See the JSON object for a description of JSON syntax.
reviver - [Optional] If a function, this prescribes how the value originally produced by parsing is transformed, before being returned.