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Using delimiter-separated values

Delimiter-Separated Values (DSV) is a popular flat, tabular data format that organizes data in rows and columns, separating rows with newlines and data values with a delimiter. Comma-Separated Values (CSV) is probably the most popular DSV format. D3 applications can use the methods in the d3-dsv module (listed here) to parse DSV data structures with any delimiter:

Function or method	Description
d3.dsvFormat(delimiter)	This returns a new parser with the specified single-character delimiter.
fmt.parse(string, function)	This parses a DSV string that treats the first row as the header row and converts each item into a key used when parsing all the other rows. Each row is converted into an object, ...