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readFileLines

JS TODO

Returns an array of lines from the specified file.

Use readFileSync function in fs node package to create a Buffer from a file. convert buffer to string using toString(encoding) function. creating an array from contents of file by spliting file content line by line (each \n).

const fs = require("fs");
const readFileLines = (filename) =>
fs.readFileSync(filename).toString("UTF8").split("\n");
/*
contents of test.txt :
line1
line2
line3
___________________________
*/
let arr = readFileLines("test.txt");
console.log(arr); // ['line1', 'line2', 'line3']