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Convert CSV to JSON or Array in JavaScript
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var CSVToArray = function(strData, strDelimiter) { | |
// Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not, | |
// then default to comma. | |
strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ","); | |
// Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values. | |
var objPattern = new RegExp(( | |
// Delimiters. | |
"(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" + | |
// Quoted fields. | |
"(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" + | |
// Standard fields. | |
"([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"), "gi"); | |
// Create an array to hold our data. Give the array | |
// a default empty first row. | |
var arrData = [[]]; | |
// Create an array to hold our individual pattern | |
// matching groups. | |
var arrMatches = null; | |
// Keep looping over the regular expression matches | |
// until we can no longer find a match. | |
while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec(strData)) { | |
// Get the delimiter that was found. | |
var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[1]; | |
// Check to see if the given delimiter has a length | |
// (is not the start of string) and if it matches | |
// field delimiter. If id does not, then we know | |
// that this delimiter is a row delimiter. | |
if (strMatchedDelimiter.length && (strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)) { | |
// Since we have reached a new row of data, | |
// add an empty row to our data array. | |
arrData.push([]); | |
} | |
// Now that we have our delimiter out of the way, | |
// let's check to see which kind of value we | |
// captured (quoted or unquoted). | |
if (arrMatches[2]) { | |
// We found a quoted value. When we capture | |
// this value, unescape any double quotes. | |
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[2].replace( | |
new RegExp("\"\"", "g"), "\""); | |
} else { | |
// We found a non-quoted value. | |
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[3]; | |
} | |
// Now that we have our value string, let's add | |
// it to the data array. | |
arrData[arrData.length - 1].push(strMatchedValue); | |
} | |
// Return the parsed data. | |
return (arrData); | |
} | |
var CSV2JSON = function(csv) { | |
var array = CSVToArray(csv); | |
var objArray = []; | |
for (var i = 1; i < array.length; i++) { | |
objArray[i - 1] = {}; | |
for (var k = 0; k < array[0].length && k < array[i].length; k++) { | |
var key = array[0][k]; | |
objArray[i - 1][key] = array[i][k] | |
} | |
} | |
var json = JSON.stringify(objArray); | |
var str = json.replace(/},/g, "},\r\n"); | |
return str; | |
} |
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