How to read file and return as array of string or number as generic type

Actually we can write 2 functions: readFileAsArrayOfNumber and readFileAsArrayOfString, but I'm too lazy to do that.

Here the solution to read a file and convert it into array of generic type (string or number).

function readFile<T>(filePath: string): T[] { const contents = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf-8') return contents.split(/\r?\n/).map(line => { const parsedNumber = parseInt(line, 10) if (!isNaN(parsedNumber)) { return parsedNumber as T } return line as T }) } 

Usage readFile<string>(filePath) or readFile<number>(filePath)