Re: In-line data [was multiple plot lines with plot '-']

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>
>> Revisiting a discussion from last month...
>> 
>> I had a go at implemented data blocks defined as a "here document".
>> The patch is on SourceForge
>> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3534646&group_id=2055&atid=302055>
>
> This looks great to me. And it's impressive that your patch is only 18K, nice 
> and compact. I haven't tested it yet, but will do so soon.

I've now given this mechanism a "live" test, and it worked just 
fine. One of the reasons I like this idea I forgot to mention in the 
previous discussion: my program gretl offers a GUI for configuring 
gnuplot graphs, and for this to work the plot command file must be 
fairly readily parseable. This data-block setup makes it easier and 
more efficient to parse the data to be plotted out of such a file, 
as compared with chasing down a bunch of e-terminated "stdin" 
blocks.

Allin Cottrell