A little JavaScript Help???

Question

var fs = require('fs'),
childProcess = require('child_process'),
xml2js = require('xml2js');

var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
fs.readFile(__dirname + '/subscription_manager.xml', function (err, data) {
parser.parseString(data, function (err, result) {
var nodes = result.opml.body[0].outline[0].outline;

nodes.forEach(function (node, index) {
var url = node['

Answer 1

require() is not a standard (built-in) JS function... NodeJS or CommonJS server sided frameworks have, and there's some libraries implementation of it: we cannot run/test your without knowing wich implementation you're using ^^

Anyway, where and how do you use loops in your implementation of more than one item treatment? Because I think you doesn't need such loop, as .forEach() method do it implicitly: it run the callback function for each item of an array, passing item value and index as argument ;P

So, I think you just have to modify the condition without adding loop statement:

if (index<10)

... would get you the first ten items of 'nodes', no more, no less (don't forgot that indexes start at 0)

Answer 2

@Visph

I feel really stupid for not trying this already. It now works perfectly. Thanks m8.

I was struggling to figure this out for like 3 days now lol.

btw I was using NodeJS.

Answer 3

I can't spot the error, but perhaps you could delete the values/links from the nodes array so they can't be opened. (Copy the array if you want to keep them stored.)

Also, try logging JSON.stringify(nodes) to see how the array is structured, and make sure you are referencing the values properly.