Re: [Gnuplot-info] Problem with octal numbers and "date"

[Dave H. <da...@ho...>]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, sfeam wrote:

> > > I've just spotted a weird problem in one of my scripts.  I'm 
> > > manipulating the date, and I have the line "month = `date +%m`" to 
> > > extract the month as a number.
> 
> If it's in back-tics, it's being interpreted by the shell, not by 
> gnuplot.  So that particular example says nothing about how gnuplot 
> processes month numbers.

You sure it's the shell, and not the GP assignment "month = 08" ?

I suppose I'll have to pipe it through "sed" or something; talk about 
violating the POLA...

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