calling callback function before rest of code (Javascript D3)

Question

Basically what I want to do is get string result from a URL. the result I get when I use my browser on the URL can be as simple as the string "word dog cat dog".

I'm trying to use the following:

var textwords;
d3.text(myUrl, function(data) {
 textwords = data;
});

and later on using textwords somehow in the following lines, but I can't of course because the callback function executes after all other code.

is there any way (other than putting all of the following code inside the callback function) I can manage to use textwords after it gets the data?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Unfortunately the short answer is no. The long answer is also no, but you could make things look a little nicer by using jQuery's Defferred . There is a really good introduction here