How do i parse a csv into my inDesign script?

Question

hi there, having real trouble with this:
// target the latest version of InDesign
#target "InDesign-10"
// This will parse a delimited string into an array of
// arrays. The default delimiter is the comma, but this
// can be overriden in the second argument.
// http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1504-ask-ben-parsing-csv-strings-with-javascript-exec-regular -expression-command.htm
function CSVToArray( strData, strDelimiter ){
    // Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not,
    // then default to comma.
    strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ",");
    // Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
    var objPattern = new RegExp(
            // Delimiters.
            "(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +
                // Quoted fields.
                "(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +
                // Standard fields.
                "([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"
        "gi"
    // Create an array to hold our data. Give the array
    // a default empty first row.
    var arrData = [[]];
    // Create an array to hold our individual pattern
    // matching groups.
    var arrMatches = null;
    // Keep looping over the regular expression matches
    // until we can no longer find a match.
    while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){
        // Get the delimiter that was found.
        var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ];
        // Check to see if the given delimiter has a length
        // (is not the start of string) and if it matches
        // field delimiter. If id does not, then we know
        // that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
        if (
            strMatchedDelimiter.length &&
                (strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)
            // Since we have reached a new row of data,
            // add an empty row to our data array.
            arrData.push( [] );
        // Now that we have our delimiter out of the way,
        // let's check to see which kind of value we
        // captured (quoted or unquoted).
        if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){
            // We found a quoted value. When we capture
            // this value, unescape any double quotes.
            var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace(
                new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ),
        } else {
            // We found a non-quoted value.
            var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 3 ];
        // Now that we have our value string, let's add
        // it to the data array.
        arrData[ arrData.length - 1 ].push( strMatchedValue );
    // Return the parsed data.
    return( arrData );
// read source file
var csv = CSVToArray(File("../data/source.csv"), ",");
// create new document using specified presets
var myDocument              = app.documents.add();
var myTextFrame             = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();
myTextFrame.geometricBounds =  ["6p", "6p", "24p", "24p"];
myTextFrame.contents        = "// this is where i want to pull a value from a specific cell within the csv.  I will have multiple TextFrames in the final script but want to see proof of concept before complicating further"

Answer 1

I haven't tested your code, you try the below code it may help you to parse the csv content:
// create new document using specified presets
var myDocument = app.documents.add();
var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();
myTextFrame.geometricBounds =  ["6p", "6p", "24p", "24p"];
var csvFile = File("../data/source.csv");//mention you csv path here
var Read1 = csvFile.open("r",undefined,undefined);
while(csvFile.eof == false)
    var Read2 = csvFile.readln();
    var LineArr = Read2.split(",");
    // LineArr[0] represent first column
    // LineArr[1] represent second column
    // LineArr[2] represent third column etc.
    myTextFrame.contents = myTextFrame.contents + "\r" + LineArr[0] + "\t" + LineArr[1];
    // if you want to validate any content try if statement like below:
        if(LineArr[0] == "CSV_CONTENT")
        myTextFrame.contents = LineArr[0]
Vandy