Re: files for plotting given by string function

[Lutz M. <ma...@uc...>]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 05:51, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> f(n)='a'.n.'.dat'
> plot f(1), f(2)
>
> => it should be equivalent to plot 'a1.dat', 'a2.dat'. However, gnuplot

I was wondering if it would be feasible to include shell-like wildcard 
expansion into gnuplot. For example, if there a two files a.1.dat and a.2.dat 
in the current working directory,
  plot "a.*.dat"
should be interpreted as
  plot "a.1.dat", "a.2.dat"

Is it possible to do this in a platform-independent way? I currently use the 
little script "pl" (http://www.phys.uni-paderborn.de/~stern/pl/) to use the 
globbing features of the shell, but there are quite a few things that would 
be much easier to do in an interactive gnuplot session.

  Lutz