chopped-and-viewed

chopped-and-viewed

A small node module for parsing fixed-width text.

Supply an array of column widths and get back an array of values.

Supply an optional second array of column names to get back a hash/dictionary instead.

Usage

Option 1: Array

var cav = require("chopped-and-viewed");

var parser = cav([3,3,3,4]);

console.log(parser("A  BCDEF GHIJ"));
//['A','BCD','EF','GHIJ']

console.log(parser("NPMIS THEBEST"));
//['NPM','IS','THE','BEST']

Option 2: Hash

var cav = require("chopped-and-viewed");

var parser = cav([5,3,5],["first","second","third"]);

console.log(parser("FOO  BARSTUFF"));
//{ 'first': 'FOO', 'second': 'BAR', 'third': 'STUFF' }