Re: [Gnuplot-info] read file to datablock

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 19:02:12 theozh wrote:
> Thanks, in priciple a nice idea.
> But probably works only under Linux?!
> I guess 'cat' doesn't exists in a simple Win7 system.
> I tried with 'type' instead, but no success.

I can't help with Windows.
A quick bit of googling suggests that the equivalent of
"cat" in the Windows PowerShell is "get-content".  But I
do not know whether that works from inside gnuplot.

	Ethan


> 
> On Saturday, 10 November 2018 07:05:46 theozh wrote:
> > Hi, I would like to read a file (as is) into a datablock.
> > I basically found two ways to do this. See code below.
> 
> I would do something very different.
> 
> set print "head"
> print "$Data1 << EOD"
> set print "tail"
> print "EOD"
> unset print
> 
> load "< cat head Test.dat tail"
> print $Data1
> 
> 		Ethan