Re: [Gnuplot-info] $field is not recognized

[János L. <jan...@ya...>]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

> Am 17.06.2010 18:57, schrieb Janos Lobb:
>> gnuplot>  call '/Volumes/Data/PROJECTS/Sysmon/gnuplot_cmds/context.gp'
> 
> That makes no sense. 'call' is for loading gnuplot scripts that take additional arguments.  Yours doesn't, so you should simply 'load' it instead.
> 
>> As you can see it lost the $field variables.
> 
> That's because in a 'call'ed script, $<number> means something different.  See "help call".

Hi Hans-Bernhard,

I use call, because later on I will pass variables :-)

In the meantime - reading the Fine Manual - I realized that $x is just a shorthand for column(x).  Doing that replacement my problem disappeared.

Thanks a lot,

János