Re: [Gnuplot-info] why this comment does not work properly?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 29.12.2011 18:39, Jon wrote:
>    fil.'L8' u 1:s w l ti 'AA N=8', \
> ######  fil.'L8' u 1:s+7 w l ti 'GWF N=8', \
>    fil.'L10000' u 1:s+7 w l ti 'GA'
>
> But it complains "invalid character \" at the end of the 4th line.
>
> This seems to me that comment within plot statement cannot be recognized,

More to the point, comments inside a continued line won't do what you 
expect.  gnuplot behaves the same as just about every Unix-style command 
line scripting language supporting '#' comments and '\' line 
continuation does: first, line continuation is resolved, resulting in a 
single long line.  Then comments are evaluated.

So comments inside a continued line will turn off everything following 
the '#', including stuff on later lines.