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Martin Brown
Courses Plus Student 10,510 PointsDoes anyone know of an app. to convert Text files
Good afternoon people of the world,
Would anyone know of an app, that could convert good old txt files to either Json or Csv. Hopefully a free app. I have been browsing the old web and can't really find a thing to help.
Many Thanks
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,122 PointsThis is an odd request since both JSON and CSV are text formats. So it sounds like you just need to apply delimiters for the format which can probably be done using a search-and-replace function of a text editor.
But you must also consider the content of your original files. JSON involves key/value pairs, is that what your file contains?
Martin Brown
Courses Plus Student 10,510 PointsThey would end up key/value pairs so to speak, txt file looks like:
yyyy mm tmax tmin af rain sun degC degC days mm hours 1964 9 20.5 8.8 0 37.4 --- 1964 10 13.6 4.2 5 77.8 --- 1964 11 11.8 4.7 3 45.5 --- 1964 12 7.7 0.1 17 65.1 ---
see where i am trying to go ????
Steven Parker
231,122 PointsThat's a typical single line? I don't see key/value pairs there. But it looks like it could easily be converted to CSV just by replacing spaces with commas.