This is a small node module for parsing individual CSV rows. This can be useful if you have, say, a user-provided string that is a "comma-separated" set of strings. Simply splitting on commas doesn't quite suffice.
It has been a little while, but when I last looked, existing node.js CSV modules didn't make it straightforward to just parse a single row of CSV data synchronously.
Follow @trentmick for updates to this module.
npm install csvrow
This is also a single node.js module (lib/csvrow.js) with no external deps, so you can alternatively just grab that file.
Typical parsing as you'd expect:
> var csvrow = require('csvrow');
> csvrow.parse('a,b,c')
[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]
> csvrow.parse(' a, b,, d')
[ 'a', 'b', '', 'd' ]
And the reverse (stringifying):
> csvrow.stringify(['a', 'b', 'c'])
'a,b,c'
> csvrow.stringify(['a', 'space y', 'c'])
'a,"space y",c'
parse and stringify should always cycle to the same value, including with
some weird edge cases. See the test suite and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values.
There is also a "normalize" function to get rid of spacing and empty columns:
> csvrow.normalize('a, b, , d')
'a,b,d'
Note: dropping empty entries might not be what you want. Patches welcome to make that optional.
npm test # tests with first node version on the path
The scheme I follow is most succintly described by the bootstrap guys here.
tl;dr: All versions are <major>.<minor>.<patch> which will be incremented for
breaking backward compat and major reworks, new features without breaking
change, and bug fixes, respectively.
MIT.