Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] set table using time format data

[<pl...@pi...>]

On Thu, 03 May 2007 22:43:12 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker  
<HBB...@t-...> wrote:

> pl...@pi... wrote:
>
>> here's a line from my working .gnu that does plot the line I want to
>> output to a table:
>>
>>
>>    plot  "150tank-txC.data"   using 1:($1<"14:00")?(P( Th4($3-2.0) -
>>    Th5($2) )/10):(P1( Th4($3-2.0) - Th5($2) )/10) with lines t "useful
>> power"
>
> That's almost certainly not going to work as planned.  Time/date data
> and $1 notation for extended using columns don't mix.  If it ever
> appears to work, that's a fluke.
>
>> however , if I use this in a table context I get an error:
>
>>    gnuplot> load "150tank-txC.gnu"
>>           "150tank-txC.gnu", line 46: Bad format character
>
> I'm reasonably sure you get the same basic error in every other context
> -- you just don't see it.
>
> For more precise help, you'll have to actually _show_ us that command
> script (or a sufficient subset reproducing the problem).
>

maybe you could post a few lines that do actually read my simple x time  
data in table mode.

If I have an example of this feature working I can build towards my code  
until I find what is breaking it.

Thanks again.