Text File to json is a text to array of objects converter

#Text file to json Currently two methods are available 1.TextFileWithGrid 2.TextFileWithoutGrid

#Installation $ npm install text_file_to_json

#API var text_file_to_json=require("text_file_to_json")

######TextFileWithGrid: It is used to convert from text file in table format to array of objects or json

using the following table to parse data

will produce

[
  {
    "Date": "20.09.2011",
    "Order Quantity": "100",
    "Delivered qty": "7"
  },
  {
    "Date": "16.08.2012",
    "Order Quantity": "4",
    "Delivered qty": "0"
  }
]

The syntax for TextFileWithGrid is textFileWithGrid(fileLocation,splitSymbol,headingLineNumber,ignoreLines)

##How to use it?

const text_file_to_json=require("text_file_to_json")
const jsonData=text_file_to_json.textFileWithGrid('./testing.txt',1,'|',[0,1,2])

Note:

• headingLineNumber and ignoreLines are optional
• ignoreLines should be in asscending order by default ignoreLines is [0,1,2,last line of the text file]
• By deafault headingLineNumber is 1

######TextFileWithoutGrid: It is csv to json converter .

using the following txt file data to parse json

Heading1,heading2,heading3,heading4
name1,address1,contact1,status1
name2,address2,contact2,status2

will produce

[
  {
    "Heading1": "name1",
    "heading2": "address1",
    "heading3": "contact1"
  },
  {
    "Heading1": "name2",
    "Heading2": "address2",
    "Heading3": "contact2"
  }
]

The syntax for TextFileWithoutGrid is

textFileWithoutGrid(File)

##How to use it? const text_file_to_json=require("text_file_to_json") const jsondata=textFileWithoutGrid('./testing1.txt')