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JavaScript Node.js Basics 2017 Building a Command Line Application Parsing JSON

KarthikReddy Lingareddy
KarthikReddy Lingareddy
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Posted by KarthikReddy Lingareddy
KarthikReddy Lingareddy
403 Points

How to parse a CSV file?

I have data set which is in CSV format, how can I decode that?

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

CSV stands for "comma-separated values", so unless some of the fields contain commas, you can easily convert a line of data into an array with "dataString.split(',');".

Fields that contain commas in the data will be enclosed in some way, often with quote marks. Decoding that would be a bit more involved but hopefully you won't have that issue.