TextParser

Coding Challange

As a coding challange, I was tasked with parsing 3 text files containing properties of a person each delimited by a different character. I then needed to combined that data into one table and finally produce an output displaying the data sorted by different columns.

Solution

As a solution to this problem I created a module called TextParserMatrix. This module facilitates parsing, sorting, printing, and maintaining separate strings of delimited text as one table. This abstraction made solving the coding challange much easier. Also this is something I can see myself adding to and using again in the future.

Build

1. Ensure that you have NodeJS installed on your OS: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
2. Download the repo, navigate into the project folder from the command line window, and run npm install.
3. Running npm start from the command line will print the code test results in the console window and produce a target_output.txt file in the project's root folder.

Test

1. Install mocha globally - npm install mocha -g
2. Run npm test from the command line