vl.dsvFormat(…values)
Specify parsing of dsv format data.
dsvFormat Method OverviewdsvFormat API Reference# dsvFormat.delimiter(value)
The delimiter between records. The delimiter must be a single character (i.e., a single 16-bit code unit); so, ASCII delimiters are fine, but emoji delimiters are not.
# dsvFormat.parse(value)
If set to null, disable type inference based on the spec and only use type inference based on the data. Alternatively, a parsing directive object can be provided for explicit data types. Each property of the object corresponds to a field name, and the value to the desired data type (one of "number", "boolean", "date", or null (do not parse the field)). For example, "parse": {"modified_on": "date"} parses the modified_on field in each input record a Date value.
For "date", we parse data based using JavaScript’s Date.parse(). For Specific date formats can be provided (e.g., {foo: "date:'%m%d%Y'"}), using the d3-time-format syntax. UTC date format parsing is supported similarly (e.g., {foo: "utc:'%m%d%Y'"}). See more about UTC time
# dsvFormat.type(value)
Type of input data: "json", "csv", "tsv", "dsv".
Default value: The default format type is determined by the extension of the file URL. If no extension is detected, "json" will be used by default.