Convert .txt file to JSON - json

Question

I want to convert a fairly unorganized and unstructured text file to JSON format. I want to be able to use the city ID information. Is there anyway I can convert this to JSON?
UPDATE: I also found this solution after a while. Very simple way to get the JSON of any tab separated text file.
https://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter/

Answer 1

You can try to use tsv2json this tool can reads a tsv file from stdin and writes a json file to stdout.
It's distributed in source file, to compile it you need to download D compiler and then run dmd tsv2json.d.
If you have more complex task there is another tool named tsv-utils

Answer 2

TSV to JSON in nodejs
var file_name = 'city_list.txt';
var readline = require('readline');
var fs = require('fs');
var lineReader = readline.createInterface({
input: fs.createReadStream(file_name)
});
var isHeader = false;
var columnNames = [];
function parseLine(line) {
return line.trim().split('\t')
}
function createRowObject(values) {
var rowObject = {};
columnNames.forEach((value,index) => {
rowObject[value] = values[index];
});
return rowObject;
}
var json = {};
json[file_name] = [];
lineReader.on('line', function (line) {
if(!isHeader) {
columnNames = parseLine(line);
isHeader = true;
} else {
json[file_name].push(createRowObject(parseLine(line)));
}
});
lineReader.on('close', function () {
fs.writeFileSync(file_name + '.json', JSON.stringify(json,null,2));
});