Getting error while reading json file using node.js - node.js

Question

I am getting the following error while reading the json file using Node.js. I am explaining my code below.
SyntaxError: Unexpected token # in JSON at position 0
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
My json file is given below.
test.json:
#PATH:/test/
#DEVICES:div1
#TYPE:p1
{
name:'Raj',
address: {
city:'bbsr'
}
}
This json file has some # included strings . Here I need to remove those # included string from this file. I am explaining my code below.
fs.readdirSync(`${process.env['root_dir']}/uploads/${fileNameSplit[0]}`).forEach(f => {
console.log('files', f);
let rawdata = fs.readFileSync(`${process.env['root_dir']}/uploads/${fileNameSplit[0]}/${f}`);
let parseData = JSON.parse(rawdata);
console.log(parseData);
});
Here I am trying to read the code first but getting the above error. My need is to remove those # included lines from the json file and then read all the data and convert the removed lines to object like const obj ={PATH:'/test/',DEVICES:'div1',TYPE:p1}. Here I am using node.js fs module to achive this.

Answer 1

As you said, you need to remove those # lines from the JSON file. You need to code this yourself. To help with that, read the file into a string and not a Buffer by providing a charset to readFileSync.
const text = fs.readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
console.log(text);
const arr = raw.split("\n");
const noComments = arr.filter(x => x[0] !== "#"));
const filtered = noComments.join("\n");
const data = JSON.parse(filtered);
console.log(data);