Convert text file into Json using javascript/nodejs

Question

I have a text file with a lot of text in the following format:

-configRuleName: SC-AZURE-ACR-001
  Status: RELEASED
  description: 1.3 - Azure Container Registry - Disable admin user
  severity: MEDIUM
  targetEffect: Preventative
  release: KYVOS
  releasePi: pi8
  destination: N/A
  alertEnabled_A: TBD
  alertEnabled_B: TBD
  runbookURL: TBD
  Comments: ''
  alertPriority: P3
  CCO: '1.3'
  Service: Azure Container Registry
- configRuleName: SC-AZURE-ACR-002
  Status: RELEASED
  description: 7.3 - Azure Container Registry - Default action deny
  severity: MEDIUM
  targetEffect: Preventative
  release: KYVOS
  releasePi: pi8
  destination: N/ASC-AZURE-APPGATEWAY-005
  alertEnabled_A: TBD
  alertEnabled_B: TBD
  runbookURL: TBD
  Comments: ''
  alertPriority: P3
  CCO: '7.3'
  Service: Azure Container Registry

I want to convert it to JSON and then write it to the appropriate file. I tried the following code:

    const file = fs.readFileSync('./valuesToExtract2.txt', 'utf-8');
    //Read Each line separately and add them to an array. and remove first line of your file;
    const array = file.split('\n')//.slice(1);
    // console.log('array is ', array)
    let objects = [], i, data, data2 = [];
    for(let row of array){
        i = 0;
        //separate each line data and add them to data array
        data = row.split(/ +/);
        data2.push(data[2])
        objects.push({
            name: data2[i++],
            status: data2[++i],
            severity: data2[++i],
            runbookUrl: data2[++i],
            destination: data2[++i],
            comments:data2[++i]
        })
    }

And a few iterations of it. It returns data which is duplicated and bad. I have difficulties here, can someone please suggest a solution?

Edit the json should look like

{
  configRuleName: SC-AZURE-ACR-001
  Status: RELEASED
  description: 1.3 - Azure Container Registry - Disable admin user
  severity: MEDIUM
  targetEffect: Preventative
  release: KYVOS
  releasePi: pi8
  destination: N/A
  alertEnabled_A: TBD
  alertEnabled_B: TBD
  runbookURL: TBD
  Comments: ''
  alertPriority: P3
  CCO: '1.3'
  Service: Azure Container Registry
},
{
  configRuleName: SC-AZURE-ACR-002
  Status: RELEASED
  description: 7.3 - Azure Container Registry - Default action deny
  severity: MEDIUM
  targetEffect: Preventative
  release: KYVOS
  releasePi: pi8
  destination: N/ASC-AZURE-APPGATEWAY-005
  alertEnabled_A: TBD
  alertEnabled_B: TBD
  runbookURL: TBD
  Comments: ''
  alertPriority: P3
  CCO: '7.3'
  Service: Azure Container Registry
}

Answer 1

What about something along the lines of:

 file=`- configRuleName: SC-AZURE-ACR-001 Status: RELEASED description: 1.3 - Azure Container Registry - Disable admin user severity: MEDIUM targetEffect: Preventative release: KYVOS releasePi: pi8 destination: N/A alertEnabled_A: TBD alertEnabled_B: TBD runbookURL: TBD Comments: '' alertPriority: P3 CCO: '1.3' Service: Azure Container Registry - configRuleName: SC-AZURE-ACR-002 Status: RELEASED description: 7.3 - Azure Container Registry - Default action deny severity: MEDIUM targetEffect: Preventative release: KYVOS releasePi: pi8 destination: N/ASC-AZURE-APPGATEWAY-005 alertEnabled_A: TBD alertEnabled_B: TBD runbookURL: TBD Comments: '' alertPriority: P3 CCO: '7.3' Service: Azure Container Registry` // code starts here /////////////////////// const lines = file.split('\n'); const json = [] for(let line of lines) { let [key, value] = line.split(":") if (key=="- configRuleName") json.push({}) Object.assign(json.at(-1), {[key]: value}) } console.log(json)