title: SyntaxError: Unexpected token \ in JSON at position
body: <p>I'm trying to parse a String to JSON in NodeJS/Javascript, this is my string (which I cannot change, coming from an external database):</p>
  
  <pre><code>'{\\"value1\\":\\"XYZ\\",\\"value2\\":\\"ZYX\\"}'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm calling:</p>
  
  <pre><code>JSON.parse(row.raw_data)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But are getting:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SyntaxError: Unexpected token \ in JSON at position
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I actually thought double escape was the correct way of escaping in string/JSON.</p>