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

A bit late but I hope it helps someone.

Some time ago even I faced a problem where the string data contained \n in between and while reading the file it used to read as different lines.

Eg.

"Harry\nPotter","21","Gryffindor"

While-Reading:

Harry
Potter,21,Gryffindor

I had used a library csvtojson in my angular project to solve this problem.

You can read the CSV file as a string using the following code and then pass that string to the csvtojson library and it will give you a list of JSON.

Sample Code:

const csv = require('csvtojson');
if (files && files.length > 0) {
    const file: File = files.item(0);
    const reader: FileReader = new FileReader();
    reader.readAsText(file);
    reader.onload = (e) => {
    const csvs: string = reader.result as string;
    csv({
        output: "json",
        noheader: false
    }).fromString(csvs)
        .preFileLine((fileLine, idx) => {
        //Convert csv header row to lowercase before parse csv file to json
        if (idx === 0) { return fileLine.toLowerCase() }
        return fileLine;
        })
        .then((result) => {
        // list of json in result
        });
    }
}