Re: [Gnuplot-info] read file to datablock

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

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 20:14:53 theozh wrote:
> Thank you again!
> I am not familiar with Win Powershell... would take a while to figure out.
> 
> But do you have an idea why Method2 gets this space at the beginning of the line?

"with table" places a " " character at the front of every field.
This insures that the fields can be distinguish even if you mess
up in specifying a field separator.

	Ethan


> 
> ### Read file to datablock
> reset session
> FILE = "Test.dat"
> set datafile separator "\n"
> set datafile commentschar ""
> 
> # Method2
> set table $Data2
>     plot FILE u (stringcolumn(1)) with table
> unset table
> print $Data2
> 
> 
> Am 10.11.2018 um 19:30 schrieb Ethan A Merritt:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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