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Using PapaParse transformHeader to remove whitespace from headers?


If we have a CSV file like this:

`firstName, lastName
 Jim, Carrey
 Stephen, Colbert`

Papaparse will output the dynamically typed result like this:

       {firstName: 'Jim',
       ' lastName': '30000'}

In order to just get {firstName: 'Jim', lastName...} PapaParse 5.0.0 has a transformHeaders option, but there's no documentation on how to achieve this result yet.

Anyone have a transformHeader snippet that does this?


Solution

  • This ended up doing the trick:

    const config = {
      delimiter: ",",
      header: true,
      dynamicTyping: true,
      transformHeader:function(h) {
        return h.trim();
      }
    };