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Akki
Akki

Reputation: 69

Splitting a text file into an array in Node JS

Hi I have seen many examples for splitting the lines but how can I split lines in txt file if some lines contain \n in their string.

Suppose I have a file with following lines:

"Test \n Line1"
"Test Line 2"

How can I split these two lines as :

ResultArray = ['Test \n Line1', 'Test Line 2']

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3091

Answers (1)

Pavan Vora
Pavan Vora

Reputation: 1744

You can also try this one,

In your text file just put your strings each in newline without that quotes. After that, your text file should be look something like this,

Test \n Line1
Test Line 2

And where you are reading your text file write

var ResultArray;
fs.readFile('test', 'utf8', function(err, contents) {
    ResultArray = contents.split("\n");
});

Now your resultArray will look like 

ResultArray =  ['Test \\n Line1', 'Test Line 2' ];

Don't worry that your resultArray contains items with double \\n. When you try to get some value from your array it will have only one \ like when you do console.log(resultArray[0]) your output will be like

Test \n Line1

Upvotes: 2

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