Re: core dump for lack data of xticlabels()

[Shigeharu T. <sh...@ie...>]

shige 08/01 2008
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Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
| > Rather than storing a NULL label and having to test for NULL every time
| > the list of labels is scanned, I think it would be better not to store a
| > NULL label at all.
| 
| Now I see there is a difference in the two fixes.  
| One way writes a tic mark even if there is no label;
| the other way writes neither a tic mark nor a label.
| 
| Normally I'd say that the user could catch the missing label and replace
| it with "" if they wanted a tic mark. But unfortunately you can't trap the 
| missing tic label from the command line.
| 
| gnuplot> plot 'xtic.dat' using 1:2:xtic(strcol(3)?strcol(3):"")
|          non-integer passed to boolean operator
| 
| various other attempts at this cause various other error messages.
| 
| So it seems we have to choose either no tic, or a tic but no label.
| I don't know which is likely to please more users.

I think your solution that the tic mark is also vanished is 
better.

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