How to return a JSON object in classic ASP

It appears to be a parsing error on the client side.

I didn't think this would make a difference, but it looks like if you quote everything, including the property names, it seems to work. And use double-quotes instead of single quotes - that apparently is making a difference.

Remember to double your double-quotes (at least I think that's how you do it in VBScript - been a long time).

So:

<%    Response.ContentType = "application/json"    Response.Write("{ ""query"":""Li"", ""suggestions"":[""Liberia"",""Libyan Arab Jamahiriya"",""Liechtenstein"",""Lithuania""], ""data"":[""LR"",""LY"",""LI"",""LT""] }")%>

I got it to work with the code below....After doubling the quotes and putting in the query string

currQuery= request.querystring("query")response.expires=-1Dim rsMain,sqlMain,rettxt,JobOpenToArrset rsMain= Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")rsMain.CursorLocation = adUseClientsqlMain = "select JobOpenTo FROM Jobs WHERE JobOpenTo LIKE '%"&currQuery & "%' group by JobOpenTo order by JobOpenTo" rsMain.Open sqlMain, Session("XXX_CMS")if Not rsMain.Eof  Then                 '## build the string       rettxt = "{query:""" & currQuery & """, suggestions:["     JobOpenToArr = rsMain.getRows()          For i = 0 to UBound(JobOpenToArr,2)       rettxt = rettxt & """" & JobOpenToArr(0,i) & ""","     Next         '##knock off trailing comma     rettxt = left(rettxt,len(rettxt)-1)     rettxt = rettxt & "]}"     Response.Write rettxt 

Joe's answer should work for you. However you might want to look at aspjson if you are going to be outputting a lot of JSON from classic ASP.