Converting CSV to JSON in bash

Question

Trying to convert a CSV file into a JSON

Here is two sample lines :

-21.3214077;55.4851413;Ruizia cordata
-21.3213078;55.4849803;Cossinia pinnata
         


        

Answer 1

For completeness sake, Xidel together with some XQuery magic can do this too:

xidel -s input.csv --xquery '
  {
    "occurrences":for $x in tokenize($raw,"\n") let $a:=tokenize($x,";") return {
      "position":[
        $a[1],
        $a[2]
      ],
      "taxo":{
        "espece":$a[3]
      }
    }
  }
'

{
  "occurrences": [
    {
      "position": ["-21.3214077", "55.4851413"],
      "taxo": {
        "espece": "Ruizia cordata"
      }
    },
    {
      "position": ["-21.3213078", "55.4849803"],
      "taxo": {
        "espece": "Cossinia pinnata"
      }
    }
  ]
}