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January 11, 2017 19:28
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A more full featured csv writer class for generating csv strings, downloading a csv, etc. Cleans out many invalid csv characters.
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function csvWriter(del, enc) { | |
this.del = del || ','; | |
this.enc = enc || '"'; | |
this.escapeCol = (col) => { | |
if(isNaN(col)) { | |
if(!col) { | |
col = ''; | |
} else { | |
col = String(col); | |
if(col.length > 0) { | |
// Use regex to check for \n ?? | |
col = col.split(this.enc).join(this.enc + this.enc); | |
col = this.enc + col + this.enc; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return col; | |
}; | |
this.arrayToRow = (arr) => { | |
let arr2 = arr.slice(0); | |
let i, ii = arr2.length; | |
for(i = 0; i < ii; i++) { | |
arr2[i] = this.escapeCol(arr2[i]); | |
} | |
return arr2.join(this.del); | |
}; | |
this.arrayToCSVString = (arr) => { | |
let arr2 = arr.slice(0); | |
let i, ii = arr2.length; | |
for(i = 0; i < ii; i++) { | |
arr2[i] = this.arrayToRow(arr2[i]); | |
} | |
return arr2.join("\r\n"); | |
}; | |
this.downloadCSV = (arr) => { | |
let csvContent = this.arrayToCSVString(arr); | |
csvContent = "data:text/csv;charset=utf-8," + csvContent; | |
let encoded = encodeURI(csvContent); | |
let link = document.createElement('a'); | |
link.setAttribute('href', encoded); | |
link.setAttribute('download', 'my_csv.csv'); | |
document.body.appendChild(link); | |
link.click(); | |
}; | |
} |
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