Re: [Gnuplot-info] Columenheaders as axis labels

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

on a unix-like system:

set xlabel system("awk -F '\"' '{if (NR==1) print $2}' Test.data")
set ylabel system("awk -F '\"' '{if (NR==1) print $4}' Test.data")


sprobst wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a simple problem. If I have a data file like this
> 
> ** Test.data ***
> "Test col 1[mm]" "Test col2[%]"
> 1 1
> 2 4
> 3 9
> *************
> 
> How can I get the columnheaders as the xlabel descriptions. Something like
> 
> set xlabel *Columenheader(1) of file Test.data*
> set ylabel *Columenheader(2) of file Test.data*
> plot 'Test.data' using 1:2
> 
> Is this possible to do something like this directly in gnuplot or do I
> have to use an external script?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
>            Best regards
>                 Stefan
> 

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