Re: Weirdness in column specifications, column() vs dollar

[Jeremy N. - ml g. <jn....@wi...>]

On 2022-03-04 08:17, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> Possible options:

> - Your notion of setting a default value for missing data is 
> interesting.
>   I don't know quite where that would go.  A uniform default could be
>   done by something like
> 	set datafile missing "?" default FOO
>   But that is probably too global to be useful. You might want 
> different
>   defaults for different columns and for different intput files.

There must come a point where it's not sensible to try to make gnuplot
cope with data that's not in a wholely-valid consistent format.

I'd say it'd be better for people whose data has missing elements to use
some sort of scripting language to fix the data, the way they want it to
look, before passing it to gnuplot.

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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own