Converting Plain Text Data To Json

I have some data that I am trying to process with javascript. DATA: A. Category one 1. item one 2. item two B. Category two 3. item thre

Solution 1:

Here is the complete function. Please have a look at the code below.

Function to parse the string

functionparseFormat(strArg) {
  var
    category,
    output = {},  // Output
    str = strArg.trim();  // Remove unwanted space before processing

  str.split('\n').forEach(function(line) {
    var item = line.split('.');
    if (item[0].match(/\d/)) {  // Match a decimal number// Remove unwanted space & push
        output[category].push(item[1].trim());
    } elseif (item[0].match(/\D/)) {  // Match UPPERCASE alphabet// Remove unwanted space
        category = item[1].trim();
        output[category] = []
      }
    });
  return output;
}

Input string

// ES6 Template Strings to define multiline string
var str = `
  A.         Category one
  1.          item one
  2.          item two
  B.         Category two
  3.          item three
  4.          item four
  C.         Category three
  5.          item five
  6.          item six
`;

Function call

// Final output Arrayvar finalOutput = [];
// Parse input stringvar parseStr = parseFormat(str);

finalOutput.push(parseStr);

// Desired JSON outputconsole.log(JSON.stringify(finalOutput));

You can look at the Browser Console for the desired JSON output.

Hope it helps!

Solution 2:

This is a simple way to get the information out of the file format and into some variables. It isn't a complete solution. Though once you get the information into variables you can figure out how to json it.

var category;
var items;
var item = line.split('.'); //Don't use the forEach on the line split.if (item[0].match(/\d/) ) {
        // match a decimal number
        items = item[1];
    } elseif (item[0].match(/\D/) )  {
        //match a letter
        category = item[1];
    }