Re: bug in histogram plot with binary data?

[Ralf J. <jue...@cs...>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> If I dump the contents after reading them in, I get this:
>
> gnuplot>  set style data linespoints
> gnuplot>  plot "histdata.bin" binary array=1:8 format="%int" using 1
> gnuplot> set table
> gnuplot> replot
>
> # Curve 0 of 1, 7 points
> # Curve title: ""histdata.bin" binary array=1:8 format="%int" using 1"
> # x y type
> 0  102  i
> 0  42  i
> 1  38  i
> 2  28  i
> 3  26  i
> 4  108  i
> 5  156  i
>
> Can you confirm this on your setup?

Yes. But I don't understand why "array=1:8". If I leave that out
I get

# Curve 0 of 1, 7 points
# Curve title: ""histdata.bin" binary format="%int" using 1"
# x y type
-1  102  i
  0  42  i
  1  38  i
  2  28  i
  3  26  i
  4  108  i
  5  156  i


Thanks,
Ralf