Javascript: TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object

Question

I'm reading a text file and converting it to JSON format using regex in my react project.It is working fine but when including in my code it is giving TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object There is some problem while performing replace but I am unable to understand the problem. Please help me out in resolving this issue.

I think the problem is allText = allText.replace(/\\s{2,}|\\n+/g, " "); is not getting completed.

Answer 1

.match(regex) returns null if there are no matches and will cause an error when trying to perform the spread operation.

you could use [...text.match(regex)||[]] but that's pretty ugly.