PHP json_encode to JS object not usable - php

Question

I have an some PHP that looks like this:
$exec[0] = shell_exec("cat /etc/msm.conf | grep JAR_PATH");
$exec[1] = shell_exec("msm server list");
if(strstr($exec[1],'[ ACTIVE ] "mc-srv" is running. Everything is OK.') !== FALSE){
$exec[1] = 'mc online';
}else{
$exec[1] = 'mc offline';
}
$exec[2] = shell_exec("sudo ts status");
if($exec[2] == 'Server is running'){
$exec[2] = 'ts online';
}else{
$exec[2] = 'ts ofline';
}
echo json_encode($exec,JSON_FORCE_OBJECT);
An AJAX request gets sent to the page and the json is returned.
If I use console.log(JSON.parse(data)) I see this in the console Object {0: "DEFAULT_JAR_PATH="server.jar"↵", 1: "mc online", 2: "ts ofline"} however I can not access any of its methods even if i use an associative array.
but If i create a new object and print that to the console it (in chrome atleast) looks exactly the same in terms of syntax highlighting exect I can access it via obj.method.
What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Based on how the object is being output in the console, it looks like it's being parsed okay by JSON.parse and is valid.
In which case, you should be able to access each method like this:
var obj = JSON.parse(data);
console.log( obj['0'] ); // returns "DEFAULT_JAR_PATH="server.jar""
console.log( obj['1'] ); // returns "mc online"
obj.0 won't work in this case because the method names are numbers.