Re: 1/0 - problem while rendering with lines

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 16 July 2007, Martin Giersich wrote:
> Btw, the official gnuplot-documentation (Thomas Williams & Colin
> Kelley, "gnuplot - An Interactive Plotting Program", 3 March 2007,
> available at: http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.pdf) describes at
> page 25 using "1/0" as a way that "may be used to generate an
> "undefined" flag, which
> causes a point to ignored". No other method to do this is refered.
> If there is another method to do this - besides change of dat-file
> format - i'd like to know...

Starting with version 4.2 there is a pre-defined variable named NaN
which may be used for this purpose.