Re: macro bug?

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 03/31/2011 08:32 PM, Arun Persaud wrote:
> Hi
>
> not sure if this is a bug or not...
>
> the following works:
>
> gnuplot>  set macros
> gnuplot>  A="a=1"
> gnuplot>  a=1.0
> gnuplot>  A=sprintf("a=%f",2)
> gnuplot>  @A
> gnuplot>  print a
> 2.0
>
> but this doesn't:
>
> gnuplot>  set macros
> gnuplot>  A="a=1.111";a=1;A=sprintf("a=%f",2);  @A;print a
>           warning: A is not a string variable

That does seem inconsistent.

Did you try the "table" feature for saving results to a file?  Look at 
the third example of "random.dem" demo to see how a data file of random 
numbers is created then used in a plot.

Dan