Re: [Gnuplot-info] Sorting

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

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> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: tmacchant3; gnuplot-info
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/9/14, Wed 16:17
> Subject: Re: [Gnuplot-info] Sorting
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>  From: tmacchant 
>>  To: gnuplot-info> Cc: 
>>  Date: 2016/9/14, Wed 14:39
>>  Subject: Re: [Gnuplot-info] Sorting
>> 
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>>  This post was updated on Sep 13, 2016; 1:37am.
>>  ***********************************************************
>>  Thank y'all for your responses. Let me clear my question. Lets say I 
> have
>>  this file:
>>    
>>  -0.00512366  0.0156186  
>>  -0.00510697  0.0154651  
>>  -0.00509028  0.015312  
>>  -0.00507359  0.0151593  
>>  -0.0050569  0.0150072  
>>  -0.00504021  0.0148556
>> 
>>  And I want to move my last row to the top of my data file and so on. so I
>>  could have :
>> 
>>  -0.00504021  0.0148556
>>  -0.0050569  0.0150072
>>  -0.00507359  0.0151593
>>  -0.00509028  0.015312
>>  -0.00510697  0.0154651
>>  -0.00512366  0.0156186
>> 
>>  I know that I could use "set xrange [* : *] reverse" command to 
> do 
>>  that when
>>  I am plotting it but I want to save the change in my data file.
>> 
>>  Thank you
>> 
> *******************************************************************************
>> 
>>  set xrange [* : *] reverse
>>  set table 'data.txt'
>>  plot (datafilename)
>>  unset table
>> 
>>  But this add 'i' to the third column.
>> 
>>  See the output the below command or gnuplot manual [1]
>>  gnuplot> help table
>> 
>>  [1] http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_5.0/gnuplot.pdf
>> 
>>  Tatsuro
> 
> Sorry the above does not make sense.
> 
> Tatsuro

Keep in mind that gnuplot is a plotting software and 
is not indented for data processing.

There is limitation of data processing facility of gnuplot.

In your case, as some people wrote, sort command is useful tool.

Tatsuro