Re: Time format data as a string?

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Saturday, 19 November, 2016 15:43:38 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
 
> 
> The documentation says:
> 
>   In all cases, the numbers of each record of a data file must be separated
>   by white space (one or more blanks or tabs) unless a format specifier is
>   provided by the `using` option. This white space divides each record into
>   columns. However, whitespace inside a pair of double quotes is ignored 
> when
>   counting columns, so the following datafile line has three columns:
>         1.0 "second column" 3.0
> 
> Thinking more general, that begs the question as to why gnuplot couldn't 
> accept numbers within a string:
> 
>   "1.0""second column""3.0"
> 
> or even CSV format:
> 
>   1.0,second column,3.0
> 
> Not that I'm really keen on having that, but it may not be a far step 
> handling those formats.

Gnuplot has accepted all of these input variants since they were introduced
in version 4.0 (2004).  Plotting from *.csv files is very common.
The relevant command is

   set datafile seperator 

	- Ethan