I have simplified what I'm presenting here, but I'm having some trouble "populating" a JSON structure with these 3 variables. I can't figure out how to create new objects and I end up storing all of name, age or state in 1 object. I'm using nodeJS, any tips would be appreciated.

const name = "Jason"   '\n'   "Freddy"   '\n'   "Chucky"
const age = "31"   '\n'   "25"   '\n'   "15"
const state = "CA"   '\n'   "NY"   '\n'   "PA"

console output will show this

Jason
Freddy
Chucky
31
25
15
CA
NY
PA

I want to take those values from the 3 variables and create this...

{
    "overview": 
    [
        {
            "people": 
            [
                {
                    "name": "Jason",
                    "age": "31",
                    "state": "CA"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Freddy",
                    "age": "25",
                    "state": "NY"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Chucky",
                    "age": "15",
                    "state": "PA"
                }
                
            ]
        }
    ]
}

CodePudding user response：

First, parse the initial data using split.

After that, create the structure you wish and then iterate through your data and populate the people array using push method.

const name = "Jason"   '\n'   "Freddy"   '\n'   "Chucky";
const age = "31"   '\n'   "25"   '\n'   "15";
const state = "CA"   '\n'   "NY"   '\n'   "PA";

const names = name.split('\n');
const ages = age.split('\n');
const states = state.split('\n');

const obj = { overview : [
  {
    people: []
  }
]}

for (var i = 0; i <= 2; i  ){
   const person = {};
   person.name = names[i];
   person.age = ages[i];
   person.state = states[i];
   obj.overview[0].people.push(person);
}

console.log(obj);

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push - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/push

split - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split