Await error when running documentation example

I’m trying to run the following example, shown in documentation:

const jsonArray=await `csv().fromString(myCSV);

I tried it like this:

const myCSV='col0,col1,col2\n1,2,3\n4,5,6';
const jsonArray=await csv().fromString(myCSV);
console.log(jsonArray);

But I’m getting:

SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function

Is this expected in the current version? I tried the solution given in issue https://github.com/Keyang/node-csvtojson/issues/272, but got the same problem.

I’m using version csvtojson@2.0.8, node v8.12.0.

Thanks!

[Keyang]

As #272 pointed out, await can only be used in an async function. try this:

async function run(){
const myCSV='col0,col1,col2\n1,2,3\n4,5,6';
const jsonArray=await csv().fromString(myCSV);
console.log(jsonArray);
}
run();

[WORMSS]

@punkish your ‘run’ function is asynchronous, you would need to await the results of it, which is exactly the same as awaiting the results of fromFile. You would basically end up with

(async function () {
  return run();
})();

But you could not output that to module.exports. Basically, you cannot output anything from this module synchronously.

Even if you were to fill the csv() synchronously, eg

csv().fromString(fs.readFileSync(csvFilePath, 'utf-8')); // (synchronous)

you would still need a way to get the results… The ‘getting the results’ part is all asynchronous, either by stream (asynchonous), event (asynchronous), promise (asynchronous).