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Suhail Gupta
Suhail Gupta

Reputation: 23276

Adding line breaks within a cell

I create a CSV from javascript array of objects using the json2csv module. This is what I do

const list = [{name: "xyz", city: "abc"},{name: "foo", city: "def"}];

const json2csvParser = new Parser({fields: headers});
const csv = json2csvParser.parse(list);

Now, for the CSV created by converting array of objects, I need to prepend a row (add a new row at the top) and fill only the first cell. It will look similar to the following

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Here is what I tried:

const newLine = `"First Line
   Second Line"`;

const updatedCSV = newLine + csv;

Now, if I open this CSV using google spreadsheet, it shows the prepended value in cell, with line breaks. But if I open the same in Microsoft Excel, it shows as follows:

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There are multiple rows created and " are also visible. How can I make it seamless, so that it opens the same everywhere, which always shows one row with multiple line breaks. I need to be able to add the line breaks within a cell.

I referred to

but it did not help.

When I try to open the file using a text editor, this is how it looks like:

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