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Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right

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From	"rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right
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On Aug 30, 10:41 am, sfeam <sf...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> rbl...@gmail.com wrote:
> > My one remaining issue is I have too many xtics in the date format.
> > The x-axis is almost unreadable
>
> > How can I set to every other or every 3rd date? My command file looks
> > like this:
> > reformat(date) = date[6:7]."/".date[9:10]
> > plot 'events.data' using 2:xtic(reformat(stringcolumn(1))
>
>   reformat(date) = (column(0)%3 != 0) ? "" : date[6:7]."/".date[9:10]

Hm, that doesn't seem to work.  I get
"datebars.gp", line 14: can only mod ints

where my line 14 is the plot command where reformat is called.

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Date Based Histogram--almost right "rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com> - 2011-08-30 08:22 -0700
  Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-08-30 08:41 -0700
    Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right "rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com> - 2011-08-30 10:46 -0700
      Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right "rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com> - 2011-08-30 12:35 -0700

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