how to prevent JsonConvert.SerializeObject from adding quotes around strings

Question

I have a section on my server that looks like this:

private static dynamic Data;
string ArraySize = "[900,900,2]";
Data = new { c2array = true, size = ArraySize };
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("json.txt", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Data));

which spits this out:

{"c2array":true,"size":"[900,900,2]"}

yet in JavaScript I can get it to this with json.stringify:

{"c2array":true,"size":[900,900,2]} <--- no quotes

how can i get the c# JSON serialize to not wrap quotes around the string.

I'm using a string value because if I try the following

Data = new { c2array = true, size = [900,900,2] };

it won't compile

the client script I'm sending this to is a game programming library in JavaScript and it expects the size without quotes.

Daniel A. White · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-16 03:12:47Z

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Don't make ArraySize a string.

var ArraySize = new int[] {900,900,2};
Data = new { c2array = true, size = ArraySize };

answered Feb 16, 2013 at 3:12

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BrierMay Over a year ago

thankyou worked like a charm says I can't accept an answer for 7 minutes but will when it lets me

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