Re: [ gnuplot-Bugs-993127 ] Difference between ' and " not maintained internally

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 18 July 2004 02:42 pm, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > I consider this a bug, because you do not get the same
> > behaviour from a saved file that you got from the original.
>
> I don't really think this is true.  Not as of right now, before
> introduction of the string-variables patchsets, that is.
>
> Can you demonstrate an actual difference in behaviour from CVS
> gnuplot caused by this?

Sure. This is a stupid example, but it's very simple:

set title 'Now is `date`'
plot x
save "temp"
load "temp"

The first plot will have as a title    Now is `date`
After save/reload is has a title     Now is Sun Jul 18 16:18:31 PDT 2004


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Ethan A Merritt
Department of Biochemistry & Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle