<div class="intro">

<p>DataSource.Text normalizes delimited text data against a given schema into an object with known properties.</p>

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<div class="example yui3-skin-sam">

{{>dataschema-text-source}}

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<p>In order to use DataSchema.Text, input data must be delimited text. Define as your schema's `resultDelimiter` property the string that separates each result, and define as your schema's `fieldDelimiter` property the string that separates each field of each result.</p>

```

YUI().use("dataschema-text", function(Y) {

var data_in = "notebooks, 100, spiral-bound\\npencils, 300, #2 with erasers\\npens, 500, blue ink",

schema = {

resultDelimiter: "\\n",

fieldDelimiter: ",",

// Or simply: ["product", "quantity", "detail"]

resultFields: [{key:"product"}, {key:"quantity"}, {key:"detail"}]

},

data_out = Y.DataSchema.Text.apply(schema, data_in));

alert(data_out);

});

```