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<title>CSV to JSON</title>
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<h1 id="heading" class="text-center">CSV to JSON Converter</h1>
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<p>Paste Your CSV Here:</p>
<textarea rows="10" cols="20" id="csv" class="form-control">"Id","UserName"
"1","Sam Smith"
"2","Fred Frankly"
"1","Zachary Zupers"</textarea>
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<button class="btn btn-success" id="convert">Convert to JSON</button>
<button class="btn btn-warning" id="download">Download JSON</button>
<textarea rows="10" cols="20" id="json" class="form-control"></textarea>
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JAVASCRIPT
// Source: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1504-Ask-Ben-Parsing-CSV-Strings-With-Javascript-Exec-Regular-Expression-Command.htm
// This will parse a delimited string into an array of
// arrays. The default delimiter is the comma, but this
// can be overriden in the second argument.
function CSVToArray(strData, strDelimiter) {
// Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not,
// then default to comma.
strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ",");
// Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
var objPattern = new RegExp((
// Delimiters.
"(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +
// Quoted fields.
"(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +
// Standard fields.
"([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"), "gi");
// Create an array to hold our data. Give the array
// a default empty first row.
var arrData = [[]];
// Create an array to hold our individual pattern
// matching groups.
var arrMatches = null;
// Keep looping over the regular expression matches
// until we can no longer find a match.
while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec(strData)) {
// Get the delimiter that was found.
var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[1];
// Check to see if the given delimiter has a length
// (is not the start of string) and if it matches
// field delimiter. If id does not, then we know
// that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
if (strMatchedDelimiter.length && (strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)) {
// Since we have reached a new row of data,
// add an empty row to our data array.
arrData.push([]);
}
// Now that we have our delimiter out of the way,
// let's check to see which kind of value we
// captured (quoted or unquoted).
if (arrMatches[2]) {
// We found a quoted value. When we capture
// this value, unescape any double quotes.
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[2].replace(
new RegExp("\"\"", "g"), "\"");
} else {
// We found a non-quoted value.
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[3];
}
// Now that we have our value string, let's add
// it to the data array.
arrData[arrData.length - 1].push(strMatchedValue);
}
// Return the parsed data.
return (arrData);
}
function CSV2JSON(csv) {
var array = CSVToArray(csv);
var objArray = [];
for (var i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {
objArray[i - 1] = {};
for (var k = 0; k < array[0].length && k < array[i].length; k++) {
var key = array[0][k];
objArray[i - 1][key] = array[i][k]
}
}
var json = JSON.stringify(objArray);
var str = json.replace(/},/g, "},\r\n");
return str;
}
$("#convert").click(function() {
var csv = $("#csv").val();
var json = CSV2JSON(csv);
$("#json").val(json);
});
$("#download").click(function() {
var csv = $("#csv").val();
var json = CSV2JSON(csv);
window.open("data:text/json;charset=utf-8," + escape(json))
});
