From fc9fed6a9d5532fb3b2a66e4cbd44b99ab76080f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex A. Naanou" <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2026 02:42:21 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
---
 serialize.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/serialize.js b/serialize.js
index a79b96b..dc0f25a 100644
--- a/serialize.js
+++ b/serialize.js
@@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ module.eJSON = {
 		if(j == str.length 
 				&& str[j-1] != match){
 			this.error('Unexpected end of input wile looking fot "'+ match +'".', str, i, line) }
-		return [ str.slice(i+1, j), j+1, line ] },
+		// NOTE: this is cheating -- instead of dancing around and 
+		// 		replicating the full functionality of JSON.parse(..) we
+		// 		are simply falling back on it, as we did when serializing.
+		return [ JSON.parse(`"${str.slice(i+1, j)}"`), j+1, line ] },
 	identifier: function(state, path, match, str, i, line){
 		debug.lex('identifier', str, i, line)
 		if(!/[a-zA-Z_]/.test(str[i])){