text-2-json

Small CLI style node app to convert delimited .txt files into .json

install

Install with npm: npm install text-2-json

use

Run from command line, takes three args:

• i, the path of input txt file, e.g. "input/path/text.txt"
• o, the path of output json file, e.g. "output/path/result.json"
• h, optional flag indicating whether or not to use the first row of the file as object keys.
• p, optional Regex pattern to match field separator, e.g: [^\\t]+. Defaults to: [^\\n\\r\\t ]+

Example:

node index.js --i=test/test.txt --o=test/output.json --h

Turns:

test max min direction
10 27.7 12.4 12
11 26.9 13.5 18
12 27.4 16.9 31
13 25.1 12.7 29

Into:

[
	{
		"test": "10",
		"max": "27.7",
		"min": "12.4",
		"direction": "12"
	},
	{
		"test": "11",
		"max": "26.9",
		"min": "13.5",
		"direction": "18"
	},
	{
		"test": "12",
		"max": "27.4",
		"min": "16.9",
		"direction": "31"
	},
	{
		"test": "13",
		"max": "25.1",
		"min": "12.7",
		"direction": "29"
	}
]

parse multiple files

Open command line and run: sh parseMultipleFiles.sh