Re: New autocompletion feature

[Theo H. <th...@ph...>]

Lutz Maibaum wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008 15:46:27 Ethan Merritt wrote:
>> On Friday 18 July 2008 15:23:34 Lutz Maibaum wrote:
>>> I have no answer to your question, but your email reminded me of a
>>> feature that I think would be very nice to have, the support of
>>> wildcards in filenames.
> 
>>>   plot "file[1-3]" <all your options>
> 
>> We already have that:
>>
>>    plot for [i=1:3] "file".i <all your options>
> 
> Thanks, Ethan, I didn't know about plot iterations. It seems like they are 
> limited to integers, are there any plans to allow iterations over string 
> lists? It would be great if one could do something like
> 
>   plot for (filename in test*.dat) i <all your options>
> 
> or at least
> 
>   plot for (filename in `ls test*.dat`) i <all your options>
> 
> Right now it seems like I would have to do something like
> 
>   list="`ls test*.dat`"
>   plot for [i=1:words(list)] word(list,i)
> 
> which actually does not work, since calling ls through backticks generates 
> a list with only a single item in it:
> 
> gnuplot> !ls test*.dat
> test1.dat  test2.dat
> gnuplot> list="`ls test*.dat`"
> gnuplot> print word(list,1)
> test1.dattest2.dat

Using list="`echo test*.dat`" works fine here. Filenames are separated 
by spaces, as expected for use with word().

THeo