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sh.learner
sh.learner

Reputation: 63

File contents into an array

How would I go about adding each individual word from a text file into an array using javascript?

The file is not a csv and contains about 5 lines each with around 5 words. I know that I'll have to use .split(" ") however because there are multiple lines I'm not sure about the loop.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (2)

Pritam Banerjee
Pritam Banerjee

Reputation: 18923

You can simply read the text in a file and then use the following split:

split(/\s+/);

\s matches both spaces and newlines.

Upvotes: 1

ymz
ymz

Reputation: 6914

First: define a function to handle the content of the file

function parseTheFileContent(fileData)
{
    var lines = fileData.split('\n');

    // do something with the lines array
}

Second: make an ajax call to fetch the file content

httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();

if (!httpRequest) return;

httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function()
{
   if (httpRequest.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
     if (httpRequest.status === 200) parseTheFileContent(httpRequest.responseText);
   }
}

Upvotes: 0

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