Question: I've got a problem with my node.js application.
I'm trying to parse string using JSON.parse like this:

```
try{
    skills = JSON.parse(user.skills);
    }catch(e){
    console.log(e);
}

```

In user.skills I've got such a string:

```
"[ { name: Dreamweaver, level: 60 }, { name: Phototshop, level: 80 }]"

```

and it throws me: [SyntaxError: Unexpected token n].
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance :)

Answer: 
Your JSON data is incorrect. There should be quotes `""` around strings.

should be like this

```
var str = "[ { \"name\": \"Dreamweaver\", \"level\": 60 }, { \"name\": \"Phototshop\", \"level\": 80 }]"

```

If you want to see how should be a proper JSON String Try this

```
var data = {name:"mark"}
JSON.stringify(data) //returns "{"name":"mark"}" Here you have to care about escaping quotes. 

```
JSON data needs identifiers and values to be strings, try this:

```
'[ { "name": "Dreamweaver", "level": "60" }, { "name": "Phototshop", "level": "80" }]';

```