Re: Limit on columns of data??

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1 total messages Started by u600256@rho.lanl Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:00

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Author: u600256@rho.lanl
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:00

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In message-Id: <500ku0$69a@uuneo.neosoft.com>
rlove@neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) writes:

> While using gnuplot 3.5 I find that 'plot "file" using m:n '
> seems to have a limit on n.  I have 35 columns of data and
> using 1:35 prints out the wrong graph but using 1:2, 1:4 or
> anything up to 1:16 works.  Since I'm not the system admin and
> don't have access to the source, reompiling is out of the question.
> Is there a way to directly plot 1:35 without using awk or cut to
> prepare a new data file for me?

You might be able to use a 'scanf' string to point to the appropriate
columns.

  plot 'file' using "%*20%f%f"

would skip twenty characters and then read the next two columns.  (I think --
I'm not too good with these things yet).

Dick Crawford, aka rccrawford@lanl.gov

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