Re: [Gnuplot-info] Gnuplot does not like my text files!!

[thatartskid <sk...@wo...>]

No, I actually have Gnuplot installed on my Mac, and Excel (Mac) was
installed on the same machine.

The problem is, I have been given a lot of Excel data (made on a mac
though), that I want to import in Gnuplot. How do you suggest I export it?

I have the choice between :
- UTF-16 Unicode
- Tab delimited text
- Windows formatted text
- MS-DOS formatted text
- Windows comma separated
- MS-DOS comma separated

Although none of these seem very mac-ish, do they?

Sorry for the silly questions, but I am completely new in the unix world.



Hans-Bernhard Bröker-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> thatartskid wrote:
>> I am having serious trouble to make GNUplot load simple tab-spaced files
>> (exported from Excel MAC though)
> 
> That's your problem right there.  You incorrectly exported those files 
> from the Mac to some other platform.  Text files need special treatment 
> to work cross-platforms, to translate between linebreak conventions, if 
> nothing else.  How that special treatment is activated depends on the 
> particular export method.  If all else fails, you can always use 
> separate tools like 'recode' or 'tr'.
> 
> 

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