textToFormat

A Node.js Package to Convert any Plain text file to the X format(JSON,XML,SQL,CSV).

Installation

npm install -g text-to-format

Note : In some computers you need to be an administrator, in this case add sudo before the previous command.

Configuration

Configuration Getters :

textToFormat --get separator

textToFormat --get sttributes

textToFormat --get currentFormat

textToFormat --get formatTable

textToFormat --get default  // to get an object of the default configuration  

textToFormat --get tagName

Configuration Setters

Here are some example of using setters :

textToFormat --set separator --value new_separator

textToFormat --set attributes --value attributeName1,attributeName2,etc

textToFormat --set currentFormat XML

textToFormat --set tagName user

Convertion

In order to convert a text file to a standard Format(JSON,XML,CSV), we have to :

1. Specify first the list of attributes, for example username,email,password

textToFormat --set attributes --value username,email,password

2. Then specify the source text file(the --src parameter)

3. Specify the format to convert to (the --to parameter)

4. Specify the destination file to save the converted data to (the --dest parameter), if the destination file doesn't exist it will be created otherwise overwritten

Example

A JSON example :

textToFormat --set attributes --value username,email,password

textToFormat --src source.txt --to json --dest output.json

An XML example :

textToFormat --set attributes --value username,email,password

Important: for XML we can set the tagName of the wrapper element, otherwirse the default tagName wrapper is used( by default it is 'element')

textToFormat --set tagName --value user

textToFormat --src source.txt --to xml --dest output.xml