CSV to JSON using jq

Question

If you have a csv dataset like this:

name, age, gender
john, 20, male
jane, 30, female
bob, 25, male

Can you get to this:

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Answer 1

Here is a solution that assumes you run jq with -s and -R options.

[
  [                                               
    split("\n")[]                  # transform csv input into array
  | split(", ")                    # where first element has key names
  | select(length==3)              # and other elements have values
  ]                                
  | {h:.[0], v:.[1:][]}            # {h:[keys], v:[values]}
  | [.h, (.v|map(tonumber?//.))]   # [ [keys], [values] ]
  | [ transpose[]                  # [ [key,value], [key,value], ... ]
      | {key:.[0], value:.[1]}     # [ {"key":key, "value":value}, ... ]
    ]
  | from_entries                   # { key:value, key:value, ... }
]

Sample run:

jq -s -R -f filter.jq data.csv

Sample output

[
  {
    "name": "john",
    "age": 20,
    "gender": "male"
  },
  {
    "name": "jane",
    "age": 30,
    "gender": "female"
  },
  {
    "name": "bob",
    "age": 25,
    "gender": "male"
  }
]