Re: [Gnuplot-info] plot dstat output cvs file

[Bart V. <Bar...@te...>]

On 11/07/2013 08:39 PM, Theo wrote:
> Hi Bart,
>
> I read again the description of 'every' carefully (which I also
> recommend to you ;-).
> Obviously, empty lines in data rows seperate individual data blocks.
> So, if there is an empty line in your data it starts a new block.

True.  I was aware of that.  But indeed you are right, I should've read 
the description of 'every' more carefully :-)

> Let's use the simplified data:
>
> "blabla1",,,
> "blabla2",,,
> "blabla3",,,
> "blabla4",,,
>
> "blabla6",,,
> "date time","A","B","C"
> 30-10 11:19:40,1.0,2.0,3.0
> 30-10 11:19:41,1.1,2.1,3.1
> 30-10 11:19:42,1.2,2.2,3.2
> 30-10 11:19:43,1.3,2.3,3.3
> 30-10 11:19:44,1.4,2.4,3.4
>
> The command to plot this:
>
> plot 'Data.dat' u 1:2 every 1:1:2:1 w lp t "Title 2"    # and so on...
>      which is equivalent to
> plot 'Data.dat' u 1:2 every ::2:1 w lp t "Title 2"
>
> # explanation of every 1:1:2:1
> data points increment is 1
> block increment is 1
> starting point is 2 (points in each block start from 0)
> starting block is 1 (blocks start from 0)
>
> However, I have not found a way to automatically take the columnheaders
> from line 2 of block 1.
> gnuplot seems to always take line 0 from block 0.

Indeed.  And that is exactly still my annoying problem :-)  If anybody 
knows a way how to take the correct columnheaders, feel free to let me know!

Kind regards,
Bart