what causes this error on the third line?
var products = [{
"name": "Pizza",
"price": "10",
"quantity": "7"
}, {
"name": "Cerveja",
"price": "12",
"quantity": "5"
}, {
"name": "Hamburguer",
"price": "10",
"quantity": "2"
}, {
"name": "Fraldas",
"price": "6",
"quantity": "2"
}];
console.log(products);
var b = JSON.parse(products); //unexpected token o
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products is an object. (creating from an object literal)
JSON.parse() is used to convert a string containing JSON notation into a Javascript object.
Your code turns the object into a string (by calling .toString()) in order to try to parse it as JSON text.
The default .toString() returns “[object Object]”, which is not valid JSON; hence the error.