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You can now upload your data as comma, semi-colon or tab delimited files. What’s a delimiter, you ask? It’s the character that you use to separate data into columns. If you have data that looks like this:

then comma delimited data would look like this:

x,y,z
0,0,0
1,1,1
2,4,8
3,9,27
4,16,64

and the semi-colon delimited data would look like this:

x;y;z
0;0;0
1;1;1
2;4;8
3;9;27
4;16;64

Plot-O-Matic will automatically detect the what you are using as a delimiter. For more information, see the uploads help.

This was all precipitated by Wim, who reminded me that in Belgium (and lots of other places in the world, of course!), he uses the comma as a decimal separator and therefore uses semi-colon delimited files. (Thanks Wim!)

So, not only can you upload data with semi-colon delimited files, but the comma will work as a decimal separator in any numbers in Plot-O-Matic.

(more reading on data types in Plot-O-Matic)