Reading local text file into a JavaScript array [duplicate]
Using Node.js
sync mode:
var fs = require("fs");var text = fs.readFileSync("./mytext.txt");var textByLine = text.split("\n")
async mode:
var fs = require("fs");fs.readFile("./mytext.txt", function(text){ var textByLine = text.split("\n")});
UPDATE
As of at least Node 6, readFileSync
returns a Buffer
, so it must first be converted to a string in order for split
to work:
var text = fs.readFileSync("./mytext.txt").toString('utf-8');
Or
var text = fs.readFileSync("./mytext.txt", "utf-8");