Question

Does anyone know of a way to get data from a CSV file, then put it into an array which i can pass via AJAX to my webservice?

Answer 1

Replaced my entire answer with a nice jQuery solution:

$(document).ready(function() {
            var data = '"REVIEW_DATE","AUTHOR","ISBN","DISCOUNTED_PRICE"    "1985/01/21","Douglas Adams",0345391802,5.95    "1990/01/12","Douglas Hofstadter",0465026567,9.95   "1998/07/15","Timothy ""The Parser"" Campbell",0968411304,18.99 "1999/12/03","Richard Friedman",0060630353,5.95 "2001/09/19","Karen Armstrong",0345384563,9.95  "2002/06/23","David Jones",0198504691,9.95  "2002/06/23","Julian Jaynes",0618057072,12.50   "2003/09/30","Scott Adams",0740721909,4.95  "2004/10/04","Benjamin Radcliff",0804818088,4.95    "2004/10/04","Randel Helms",0879755725,4.50';

            var array1 = data.split("\t");
            var array2 = new Array();

            for (var i = 0; i < array1.length; i++) {
                array2.push(array1[i].split(","));
                for (var j = 0; j < array2[i].length; j++) {
                    $('ul').append('<li>'+array2[i][j]+'</li>');
                }               
                $('ul').append('<li><hr></li>');
            }
        });

Only difference is you will have to do the following to retrieve the CSV file…

   $.ajax({
      url: "file.csv",
      success: function(data) {
        var array1 = data.split("\t");
        var array2 = new Array();

        for (var i = 0; i < array1.length; i++) {
            array2.push(array1[i].split(","));
            for (var j = 0; j < array2[i].length; j++) {
                $('ul').append('<li>'+array2[i][j]+'</li>');
            }               
            $('ul').append('<li><hr></li>');
        }
      }
    });