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Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 1241

How to do loop to write files from list in node.js?

I'm trying to do loop to write files, I need to know how to load a file as cities.txt, this content inside looks like:

Los Angeles
San Francisco
St. Louis
New York
Philadelphia
Miami
Houston
Dallas
Kansas City
Memphis
...

This list includes new line, I'm looking a script to do loop, the output would be like this screenshot:

loop list

Also the space string needs to be replaced from " " to "-" to prevent error due to naming file rules.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 242

Answers (1)

James Hibbard
James Hibbard

Reputation: 17755

You can do it with readline, the core node module.

var fs = require('fs');

var lr = require('readline').createInterface({
  input: require('fs').createReadStream('cities.txt')
});

lr.on('line', function (line) {
  var fileName = line.replace(" ", "-").toLowerCase();
  fs.writeFileSync(fileName + ".json", '');
});

This SO thread is quite helpful: Read a file one line at a time in node.js?

Upvotes: 1

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