JSON format issue?

I am debugging a perl module that generates JSON and what I know about JSON you could probably fit in a thimble. The JSON is here.....

xvarStore_json = {
     identifier: 'name',
     label: 'name',
     items: [
          {name: "CR_Local_ID"} ,
          {name: "CR_Patient_ID"} ,
       开发者_Python百科   {name: "test("MEDICARE PART B","xvar:X_Primary_Payer","1","1")"} 
            ]
};

The error I am getting in Firebug is ..

missing } after property list
    {name: "test("MEDICARE PART B","xvar:X_Primary_Payer","1","1")"}

I would be happy to spend the time learning JSON if this weren't an urgent fix. Does anyone have an idea as to what's going wrong?

Janie

While I agree @matt-ball in his answer, I don't think that's really the issue here. The problem is this line:

{name: "test("MEDICARE PART B","xvar:X_Primary_Payer","1","1")"}

You need to escape your quotes inside the actual value:

{name: "test(\"MEDICARE PART B\",\"xvar:X_Primary_Payer\",\"1\",\"1\")"}

That's not JSON; it is a JavaScript object literal. There is a very important difference.

The syntax highlighting gives away the problem: you're trying to use double quotes inside of a string that's delimited by double-quotes, so the string ends early. Just use single quotes to delimit the string instead.

{name: 'test("MEDICARE PART B","xvar:X_Primary_Payer","1","1")'}

And just to make it perfectly clear, there's no such thing as a "JSON object."

Issue withe the unterminated quotes:

Replace with {name: "test("MEDICARE PART B","xvar:X_Primary_Payer","1","1")"} with

{name: "test('MEDICARE PART B','xvar:X_Primary_Payer','1','1')"}  

Your JSON object should look like:

xvarStore_json = {
         identifier: 'name',
         label: 'name',
         items: [
              {name: "CR_Local_ID"} ,
              {name: "CR_Patient_ID"} ,
              {name: "test('MEDICARE PART B','xvar:X_Primary_Payer','1','1')"}   
                ]
    };