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Re: How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart?

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From TonyG <tgozdz@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart?
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On Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:45:52 AM UTC-4, sfeam wrote:
> TonyG wrote:
> 
> &gt; I assume gnuplot 4.6 does not have a dedicated data file line
> &gt; addressing mechanism and I would have to use a script.  So, how do I
> &gt; display a specific value copied from a specific file (generated by a
> &gt; script) on a chart (using, for example, the &#39;set label 1 sprintf(&quot;a =
> &gt; %3.4f&quot;, a) at 500,50&#39; command, a situation described in the title of
> &gt; my post?
> 
> 
> 
> Foo = system(&quot;tail -3 filename&quot;)
> Labeltext = word(Foo,N)
> set label 1 Labeltext at some_x, some_y

At first, I jumped in joy at your suggestion (I was already fiddling with the 'system' command), but then, using your syntax on a Windows XP system--and similar expressions--I get

gnuplot> load 'test.gp'
         "test.gp", line 15: warning: system evaluation not supported by MS-Windows 32 bit

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How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart? TonyG <tgozdz@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 04:07 -0700
  Re: How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart? sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-07-19 07:45 -0700
    Re: How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart? TonyG <tgozdz@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 08:13 -0700
      Re: How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart? sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-07-19 13:32 -0700
        Re: How to display the value in the n-th column in the 3rd from the last row in the file on a chart? TonyG <tgozdz@gmail.com> - 2012-07-21 08:19 -0700

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