[Gnuplot-bugs] exceptional small numbers

[Peter S. <spe...@ma...>]

dear colleagues,

only recently I came into much trouble with obscure looking plots
generated automatically inside a code generating function tables and
plotting them to  *.png files:
obviously in case of numbers with a three digit exponent representation
e.g. from a standard format print in gfortran like
 0.123-150 
these are misunderstood by gnuplot (here as 0.123) , like for the file 
infquad.tab appended, although I did not change anything regarding ''set zero''.
I found nothing in the documentation which gives a warning concerning this,
maybe an oversight from my side. 
If you 
''plot "infquad.tab" using 1:2 w l ''
you get a completely erroneous picture near zero. 
My current version:

Version 4.4 patchlevel 0
        last modified March 2010
        System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
best regards
p. spellucci