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Reputation: 974

Parse a CSV table from a variable in node.js

I have a node application which can end up with a CSV formatted table in a variable.

I'd like to parse it into a JSON style format.

All of the modules I've looked at seem to only take input from files (unless I'm misunderstanding)

Are there any modules out there which do what I'd like or would I be better off just rolling my own solution?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1574

Answers (2)

JP Richardson
JP Richardson

Reputation: 39385

As an alternative, you could use string.js. It works on Node.js and client side in the browser. Disclaimer: I'm the author.

Example:

var S = require('string');
S(myCsvData).lines().forEach(function(line){
  var fields = S(line).parseCSV();
});

Upvotes: 3

Abdullah Jibaly
Abdullah Jibaly

Reputation: 54780

This example from NodeCSV seems to be parsing from a variable:

https://github.com/wdavidw/node-csv-parser

var csv = require('csv');
csv()
   .from( '"1","2","3","4"\n"a","b","c","d"' )
   .to( console.log )

In general, Node.js lets you treat both files and strings as streams. It's usually pretty trivial to go from one to the other.

Upvotes: 2

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