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I have a JSON String as below.

String Input = {"body":"<style>p{margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;}</style><body class=\"setupTab\"  style=\" background-color:#CCCCCC; bEditID:b1st1; bLabel:body;\">"}

When I try Map<String, Object> parsedJSONMap = (Map<String, Object>) JSON.deserializeUntyped(Input);

It throws error,

System.JSONException: Unexpected character ('s' (code 115)): was expecting comma to separate OBJECT entries at [line:1, column:76]

But if I change all \ to \\ in the String it works perfectly.

How can I replace all \ with \\ or is there any other way to achieve this?

String is generated locally not from any API.

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This relates to the syntax of Apex strings where \ is an escape character that turns off any special meaning of the following character.

So to represent a literal \ you need to escape the special meaning of the second \ with an added first \, hence \\.

I suggest modifying your local code to not put in the \ in the first place as Apex strings use ' as the string delimiter not " so no need to escape ".

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  • I'm fetching the String from Email Template HTML Body. So it includes ". Any other way to replace \ with \\?
    – Sunil C N
    Feb 11, 2021 at 10:44
  • Including " is OK. Does it also include the backslashes?
    – Keith C
    Feb 11, 2021 at 12:33
  • Yes. I see one backslash before each ". Maybe it's automatically added to escape quotes?
    – Sunil C N
    Feb 12, 2021 at 11:08
  • Maybe. I suggest .replace('\\', '') to get rid of them if you are sure the legitimate content will never have any backslashes.
    – Keith C
    Feb 12, 2021 at 11:13

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