Issue with gray-matter

[drbazpython]

within my index.js "getStaticProps" function, the const {data:frontmatter}=matter(markdownWIthMeta)
is returning
{
slug: 'test',
frontmatter: "title:Test Post date:'June 28 2021' excerpt:'This is the excerpt' cover_image:'images/posts/img1.jpg'"
}
and I cannot seem to get access to the title, date etc. as frontmatter is a string.

[drbazpython]

resolved the problem:
my test.md frontmatter was of the form title:'xxxx' etc ..... should have added a space after the semicolon
doh!