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From: Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject: Question about sprintf
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:10:17 +0200
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Moin moin,

I'am currently using 4.4 pl0 and want to do something like

plot "foo.dat" u 4:5, "" u 4:5:(sprintf("%8s:%5s",$6,$7)) w labels

where $6 and $7 are string-data, no numerical data. But with  %s, known
from fprint in awk, it does not work. The man-page for sprintf didn't
helped...

Syntax missmatch? fprint does not work... upgrade (My sysadd at work may
do this:-)

Any hints?

Greetings,

Olaf