[Gnuplot-info] Better way to do this plotting task?

[Amit S. <lis...@gm...>]

Hi all:

Just signed up here. I have been wandering about this question for a 
while now and thought of asking you folks.

I have a data file with only a single column of say 500 lines. This 500 
lines is actually the result of 10 experiments, each of which gives me 
50 lines of data.

I would like to tell gnuplot to treat this one file as 10 different sets 
of data and not a single big set, i.e it should plot every 50 dataset 
and then "replot" over it. (separate colors).

There are two things I have tried so far:

1. Make sure that my program while writing the data, inserts line break 
after a data set (i.e. every 50 lines). The problem with this is that 
all of them are plotted in the same color

2. In the second scenario, I have written a Python script, which reads 
the big data file and creates separate files i.e. 10 files for the 
separate data sets. Then I use gnuplot to plot them, manually (ofcourse 
I could automate this part by making using of pipes).


Is there a native gnuplot way to do this?

Your opinions are welcome.

Thanks,
Amit
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