josdejong/jsonrepair

parsing unescaped double quote with followed comma got error

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#161 opened on Apr 4, 2026

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Description

this will cause error

{
  "text": "hello",
  "sentence": "do you know about "micheal", jackson"
}

error

Colon expected at position 72

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Research direction
Examine the string parser logic in the codebase to understand why unescaped double quotes cause the parser to expect a colon instead of treating them as part of the string value.
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typescript
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tooling
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