jquery.parse

Robust, efficient CSV parsing (with nearly any delimiting character)

Basic usage

results = $.parse(csvString, {
	delimiter: "\t",
	header: true
});

The default delimiter is , but can be set to anything anything except " or \n.

By default, a header row is expected. The output and error handling depends on whether you include a header row with your data.

If header: true, the output looks like:

{
	errors: [
		// errors, if any (parsing should not throw exceptions)
	],
	results: {
		fields: [
			// field names from the header row
		],
		rows: [
			// objects, where each field value is keyed to the field name
		]
	}
}

If header: false, the output looks like:

{
	errors: [
		// errors, if any (parsing should not throw exceptions)
	],
	results: [
		// each row is itself an array of values separated by delimiter
	]
}

Errors look like:

{
	message: "",	// Human-readable message
	line: 0,		// Line of original input
	row: 0,			// Row index where error was
	index: 0		// Character index within original input
}