Import a csv file in my program Javascript

Question

What i would like to to is import a csv file in my program knowing it's path.

For example if the path to the csv is C:/Users/User/example.csv I would like to somehow load this in my program, something like:

let MY_CSV_FILE =CSV_LOAD("C:/Users/User/example.csv")

I don't care about writing to it or reading from it, just loading it.

How could this be done in javascript?

Does [this](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7431268/13464279) answer your question? — J.F., Jan 14 '21 at 16:48
Does this answer your question? [How to read data From \*.CSV file using javascript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7431268/how-to-read-data-from-csv-file-using-javascript) — 0stone0, Jan 14 '21 at 16:49

codemonkey · Answer 1 · 2021-01-14T17:20:04.790

Based on the tags you selected, I am assuming you want to read your CSV data into your Node app. You need a package like node-csv. You can then use csv-parse to load you CSV data.

Install it first

$ npm install node-csv

And then read your file like this:

const fs = require('fs'); 
const parse = require('csv-parse');
const parser = parse({columns: true}, (err, records) => {
    console.log(records);
});

fs.createReadStream("C:/Users/User/example.csv").pipe(parser);

Import a csv file in my program Javascript

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