Re: comment handling

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

On Thu, 24 May 2012, pl...@pi... wrote:
> I''ve already stated that I expected it skip the rest of the line as a 
> comment. That would be useful. It appears that currently there is no 
> facility have comments other than all plotted columns being already 
> satisfied.
> 
> It would be useful when data is missing to be able to add a comment 
> saying why in the data file.
> 
> eg.
> 
> 21.05.12:23:20  96 72  65
> 22.05.12:09:00  98                    # instrument failure on channels 2 
> and 3
> 23.05.12:04:30 120 87  49

You can do this with current gnuplot, but the comment needs to start
in column 1, e.g.,

  21.05.12:23:20  96 72  65
  # next line has only 1 column due to instrument failure on channels 2 and 3
  22.05.12:09:00  98
  23.05.12:04:30 120 87  49

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