1 column table fron array (node-dir) either shows each character per cell or all in one cell

george3

using node.js and electron, creating array using node-dir

Goal is a report of a list of files in a directory so they can be clicked to open.

Expected output - have each element in array on its own line. (3 lines, 1 column)

Actual output1 - either each character is a cell (3 lines, column per character)

Actual output2 - all text in array is in only one cell (1 line, 1 column)

dataset2 value -(a list of files)

console.log(dataset2);
["/home/dl/code/delete/test.txt", "/home/dl/code/delete/three.pop", "/home/dl/code/delete/toiete.e"]

Actual output1

While reading docs it led to me to mozila and it said this

// String
Array.from("foo");                      
// ["f", "o", "o"]

which was what i was getting when using the data option as
data: dataset2
each column would be a character

Actual output2

so i tried running the array code on data option for table constructor and now all the values are in one cell
data: Array(dataset2),

Code i am using

////node-dir code that creates array to build table from 

var dir = require('node-dir');
__dirname = '/home/dl/code/delete'

dir.files(__dirname, function(err, files) {
    if (err) throw err;
  dataset2 = files
});


//////Datatable constructor using array created above as data option

  $('#example2').DataTable( {
        data: Array(dataset2),
      //dataSrc: "",
        "columns": [
            { title: "Number" ,"defaultContent": "<i>Not set</i>"}],

          select: {
        style: 'multi'
    },
      "scrollY": "400px",
        "paging": false
    } );

george3

When i change data to this i get the same thing only one character. so this looks like 6 rows of one character per column

        data:  [ "Tiger Nixon", "System Architect", "$3,120", "2011/04/25", "Edinburgh", "5421" ],

george3

I read the note about posting a link so when making that I noticed that when i deleted the html and just left the table tag so datatables could do all the table data writing i was left with just one character.
I don't know which html i deleted that made the column only one character long

http://live.datatables.net/juravegu/1/edit

george3

i seem to have got round this by adding columns to array, might have also changed how i create the array