Read CSV using node-csv (0.4 and above)

node-csv.js

var csv = require("csv"),
    fs = require("fs");

// the job of the parser is to convert a CSV file
// to a list of rows (array of rows)
var parser = csv.parse({
    columns: function(line) {
        // By defining this callback, we get handed the
        // first line of the spreadsheet. Which we'll
        // ignore and effectively skip this line from processing
    },
    skip_empty_lines: true
});


var ids = [];
var transformer = csv.transform(function(data) {
    // this will get row by row data, so for example,
    // this will read the first column and store it
    var id = data[0];
    if (id) {
        ids.push(id);
    }
});

// called when done with processing the CSV
transformer.on("finish", function() {
    console.log("done!");
});

// create a read stream of our CSV file
var stream = fs.createReadStream("./my.csv");

// pipe the CSV file to the parser to convert to arrays,
// then to the transformer to read row by row
stream.pipe(parser).pipe(transformer);