Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-992149 ] String variables revisited

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > > I was not clear enough.  This *is* the C language
> > > sprintf routine [*].  The gnuplot code just collects the
> > > variables and the format and passes them along to
> > > the C library. The documentation will refer users to
> > > "man sprintf" or to any C language manual.
> > >
> > > > set xlabel string(" %d %d %d", 1,2,3)
>
>
> I will prefer sprintf(). That's compatible to all our famous programming
> languages and does not require user to search / think "what kind of comma=
nd
> has gnuplot for sprintf?".

But then, we have to rename `print', too. Or, at least introduce a new
command `printf' which uses the same syntax as sprintf and prints to the
shell (as `print' does with a different syntax).

Yours
Harald

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