From: Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu> - 2010-02-23 20:16:12
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On Tuesday 23 February 2010 02:45:54 Shigeharu TAKENO wrote: > 3) Gnuplot help says as the following ("set datafile missing"): > > Example: > set datafile missing "?" > set style data lines > plot '-' > 1 10 > 2 20 > 3 ? > 4 40 > 5 50 > e > .... > The first `plot` will recognize only the first datum in the "3 ?" line. It > will use the single-datum-on-a-line convention that the line number is "x" > and the datum is "y", so the point will be plotted (in this case erroneously) > at (2,3). > > However, it, mentioned above, is the behavior when not using 'set > datafile missing "?"'. Using 'set datafile missing "?"', the line > "3 ?" will be ignored correctly. Yes. This could be stated more clearly in the documentation. We should try to improve the wording. Ethan |