How to read two .txt files and turn these 2 files to a 2d array?
I already have a code like this :
var fs = require('fs')
file = './text1.txt'
fs.readFile(file,'utf-8', (e,d) => {
textByLine = d.split('\r\n');
console.log("test : " + textByLine[1])
})
I succeeded to store the file in a 1d array but now I have 2 files and I want to store them in a 2d array. How to do this?
Thank you
You can have a variable at top with an empty array, after you read the files and push that result to that variable , like this:
const 2dArray = [];
const fillArray = (path)=> {
fs.readFile(path,'utf-8', (e,d) => {
2dArray.push(d.split('\r\n')) // the result is already an array.
});
});
after that you can call each file like this :
// read the files and push the result to the variable 2dArray
fillArray('./text1.txt');
fillArray('./text2.txt');
//you can read the 1st result of your 1st file array like this
const firstPartOfArray = 2dArray[0][0]; // text1 first result value
if you don't need to have the result files in order i strongly recommend to use async function.
also you can use thinks like fs-jetpack package to handle this, or glob
