Re: [Gnuplot-info] Help, my gnuplot script is too slow

[<she...@be...>]

Does gnuplot have the facility to "fseek" into binary data files?


> she...@be... wrote:
>> OK so the use of "index" is not like the use of fseek in C. So how can I
>> advance to a particular data set in a file of multiple data sets without
>> having to parse the entire file each time? That is, how can I do
>> something
>> like a fseek?
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> You can't, short of not having such a big entire file in the first place.
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> Text files absolutely _have_ to be parsed to find any particular
> position whose definition depends on the context of the file itself
> (e.g. a particular line number, the n-th occurence of a double blank
> line, ...).
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