Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] undocumented features of gnuplot call-argument parser

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 18.12.2016 um 18:29 schrieb ivana richterova:

> reading the gnuplot manual I'd guess that the call arguments would be
> passed as are but they are numerically expanded and split before being
> transferred to strings ARG0..ARG9 if they are not strings themselves.

I wonder what part of the manual you gathered that guess from.

And no, the call arguments are not specially parsed at all.  That 
parsing you see is normal gnuplot command parsing, which expects numbers 
and numeric expressions by default.  If you wanted to pass strings, 
you're supposed to enclose them in strings.