Re: files for plotting given by string function

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On Wednesdy, 15 June 2005 23:36, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> With the bleeding-edge cvs patch from Juergen Wieferink to implement a
> system() call, you could use a similar perlscript to do something along
> the lines of:
>
>   set macros
>   file_list = system("ls -1 a.*.dat | dirlist.pl")
>   plot @file_list

In this special case, backtic substition will already do the job:

  plot `ls -1 a.*.dat | dirlist.pl`

But feel free to try the patch and report bugs or suggest
enhancements. :-)


Juergen