TypeError: newData.charCodeAt is not a function

[Ankur Jat]

I was using below snippet.

const UTIL = require('util');
if (process.argv.length !== 3) {
  UTIL.error("Invalid file. Please pass a vlaid file path");
  process.exit(1);
}

const CSVREADER = require('csv-reader');
const FS = require('fs');


const READ_STREAM = FS.createReadStream(process.argv[2]);

READ_STREAM
  .pipe(CSVREADER({parseNumbers: true, skipEmptyLines: true, skipHeader: true}))
  .on('data', function(row) {
    UTIL.log('Row arived', row);
  })
  .on('end', function() {
    UTIL.log('File parsing is done');
  })
  .on('error', function() {
    UTIL.error('CSV read error:', error);
  });

While running this with node fixPCUEntries.js ./updatablePCU.csv getting below error

/home/ankurkumar/workspace/self-learning/csv-parsing/node_modules/csv-reader/index.js:105
            if (newData.charCodeAt(0) === 0xfeff) {
                        ^

TypeError: newData.charCodeAt is not a function
    at CsvReadableStream._processChunk (/home/ankurkumar/workspace/self-learning/csv-parsing/node_modules/csv-reader/index.js:105:25)
    at CsvReadableStream._transform (/home/ankurkumar/workspace/self-learning/csv-parsing/node_modules/csv-reader/index.js:249:10)
    at CsvReadableStream.Transform._read (_stream_transform.js:186:10)
    at CsvReadableStream.Transform._write (_stream_transform.js:174:12)
    at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:397:12)
    at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:383:5)
    at CsvReadableStream.Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:290:11)
    at ReadStream.ondata (_stream_readable.js:639:20)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at ReadStream.emit (events.js:211:7)

[Daniel Cohen Gindi]

Try Fs.createReadStream(process.argv[2], { encoding: 'utf8' });

You passed a binary stream, while it expects a textual stream.
If you need autodetection of stream encoding, you can pipe a binary stream through autodetect-decoder-stream, like in the README.