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plain-text-data-to-json
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Transform a “database” / basic (word, phrase) list from plain text to JSON.
This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be import
ed
instead of require
d.
npm:
npm install plain-text-data-to-json
var fs = require('fs')
var toJSON = require('plain-text-data-to-json')
var doc = fs.readFileSync('input.txt', 'utf8')
var data = toJSON(doc)
fs.writeFileSync('output.json', JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + '\n')
This package exports the following identifiers: toJson
.
There is no default export.
toJson(value[, options])
Transforms the given value (string) to JSON. Don’t like the default comment and property-value pair delimiters? Specify your own:
options
options.comment
Character(s) to use for line-comments, false
turns off comments (string
,
Array.<string>
, or boolean
, default: '%'
)
options.delimiter
Character to use as delimiter between property-value pairs (string
, default:
':'
)
options.forgiving
How relaxed to be ('fix'
or boolean
, default: false
).
When true
, doesn’t throw for duplicate keys.
When 'fix'
, doesn’t throw for property-value pairs and overwrites (see
errors).
options.log
Whether to log when forgiving
ignores an error (boolean
, default: true
).
I found myself rewriting a simple transformation over and over. This (verbosely named) project fixes that. It might not be useful, or too simple for others, but suites my use cases.
The term plain text might be confusing. It’s actually more of some (sparingly specified) standard.
Use a percentage sign (by default) to specify a comment. The comment will last until the end of line.
% This is a completely commented line.
unicorn % This is a partially commented line.
Yields:
['unicorn']
Initial or final white space (\s
) is trimmed from values.
unicorn % some value
Yields:
['unicorn']
Empty lines are striped. This includes blank (whitespace only) lines.
%%% this file contains a value. %%%
unicorn
Yields:
['unicorn']
If a line includes a colon (by default), the library returns an object.
unicorn : magic creature
Yields:
{unicorn: 'magic creature'}
All other lines are treated as array values.
unicorn
Yields:
["unicorn"]
Some errors are thrown when malformed “plain-text” is found, such as:
forgiving: true
)forgiving: true
)forgiving: "fix"
)FAQs
Transform a simple plain-text database to JSON
The npm package plain-text-data-to-json receives a total of 148 weekly downloads. As such, plain-text-data-to-json popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that plain-text-data-to-json demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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