How to read data From *.CSV file using javascript?

Question

My csv data looks like this:

heading1,heading2,heading3,heading4,heading5,value1_1,value2_1,value3_1,value4_1,value5_1,value1_2,value2_2,value3_2,val

Answer 1

Here is another way to read an external CSV into Javascript (using jQuery).

It's a little bit more long winded, but I feel by reading the data into arrays you can exactly follow the process and makes for easy troubleshooting.

Might help someone else.

The data file example:

Time,data1,data2,data2
08/11/2015 07:30:16,602,0.009,321

And here is the code:

$(document).ready(function() {
 // AJAX in the data file
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "data.csv",
        dataType: "text",
        success: function(data) {processData(data);}
        });

    // Let's process the data from the data file
    function processData(data) {
        var lines = data.split(/\r\n|\n/);

        //Set up the data arrays
        var time = [];
        var data1 = [];
        var data2 = [];
        var data3 = [];

        var headings = lines[0].split(','); // Splice up the first row to get the headings

        for (var j=1; j

Hope this helps someone in the future!