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Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right

From	"rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right
Date	2011-08-30 12:35 -0700
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On Aug 30, 12:46 pm, "rbl...@gmail.com" <rbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I put in an int() function and it works.  Many thanks for this
suggestion.

/s/ Bob

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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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