How to export JavaScript array info to csv on client side

How to export JavaScript array info to CSV on client side?

Question

There are the attribute info in array, which looks like this:

    [["name1", "city_name1", ...]["name2", "city_name2", ...]]

Any idea how I can export this to csv on the client side?

Answer

You can use [Alasql.js][1]library to export data locally in CSV (and XLSX as well) file format.

Below you can see a simple working example how to export data to CSV format.

    <script src="http://alasql.org/console/alasql.min.js"></script>

    <button onclick="exportData()">Export data to CSV file</button>

    var data = [["Minsk",100000], ["Riga",200000]];

    function exportData() {
        alasql("SELECT * INTO CSV('cities.csv') FROM ?",[data]);
    }

You can try this example at jsFiddle.