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I get a String in the following format:

    String buffer = "[{\"field1\": 11,\"field2\": 12,\"field3\": 13}]";

and want to convert it to a JSONArray. Thus i use the following code:

    JSONArray Jarray = CDL.toJSONArray(buffer);

My Problem is now i get the following exception:

    org.json.JSONException: Bad character ':' (58). at 24 [character 25 line 1]
at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:432)
at org.json.CDL.rowToJSONArray(CDL.java:113)
at org.json.CDL.toJSONArray(CDL.java:193)
at org.json.CDL.toJSONArray(CDL.java:182)
at MyDataexchange.MyCVSConverter.convertJson(MyCVSConverter.java:44)
at Mainexe.DataTest.main(DataTest.java:22)

As you can see in the stacktrace i want to use this to convert the string to .cvs at the end ;). Since i dont know how to do it in a better way i'd like to know how to fix this exception. Do i need to substitute the ':' with anything? (Substitue ':' to ',' would produce null for example but not throw an exception, still it doesnt help me :( ) If yes it would be nice to tell me with what, otherwise any suggestions are welcome.

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org.json.CDL is for parsing and serializing comma delimited text. However, your sample string is not comma delimited text. It's JSON. You probably wanted JSONArray Jarray = new JSONArray(buffer)

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And i feel dumb... Yes this solves everything with no effort. Thanks alot! :) –  Dave yesterday
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Ok, here's a better way of doing this (similar to what "guest" said):

String s = "[{\"field1\": 11,\"field2\": 12,\"field3\": 13}]";
Object obj=JSONValue.parse(s);
JSONArray array=(JSONArray)obj;
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