Javascript loading CSV file into an array

I highly recommend looking into this plugin:

http://github.com/evanplaice/jquery-csv/

I used this for a project handling large CSV files and it handles parsing a CSV into an array quite well. You can use this to call a local file that you specify in your code, also, so you are not dependent on a file upload.

Once you include the plugin above, you can essentially parse the CSV using the following:

$.ajax({
    url: "pathto/filename.csv",
    async: false,
    success: function (csvd) {
        data = $.csv.toArrays(csvd);
    },
    dataType: "text",
    complete: function () {
        // call a function on complete 
    }
});

Everything will then live in the array data for you to manipulate as you need. I can provide further examples for handling the array data if you need.

There are a lot of great examples available on the plugin page to do a variety of things, too.