reading data from csv file

Author: TidbitsJS

.gitignore

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+node_modules/
+package-lock.json

Planets/index.js

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+const fs = require("fs");
+const parse = require("csv-parse");
+
+const results = [];
+
+// Note - the file path that has been provided to createReadStream("Planets/kepler_data.csv") is realtive to the package.json file to run the program as `npm run kepler`.
+// For running the program as `node index.js` in Planets folder, change the path accordingly to createReadStream('kepler_data.csv')
+
+// to read file data in bytes
+fs.createReadStream("Planets/kepler_data.csv")
+  // pipe the stream data with parse to get a json format
+  .pipe(
+    parse({
+      comment: "#", // specifying that the file containing lines with # will be considered as comments
+      columns: true, // to create json format rather than having it in the form of array
+    })
+  )
+  .on("data", (data) => {
+    results.push(data); // data will be in json format
+  })
+  .on("error", (err) => {
+    console.error(err);
+  })
+  .on("end", () => {
+    console.log(results);
+    console.log("Done!");
+  });