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Re: Newb question

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On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 12:51:40 PM UTC+1, Olaf Schultz wrote:
> On 9/7/21 13:04, David Partridge wrote: 
> > I tried to find this out from the "friendly manual", but failed - too overwhelmed by information. 
> > 
> > I want GNUPlot to process a CSV whose 1st record provides "metadata" about the remainder of the data in the file (test conditions to be added as annotations to the plot). 
> > 
> > Is this easy to do? If so a pointer to a working example or tutorial for this would be hugely helpful. 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > David 
> >
> Moin, perhaps 
> 
> try it with "with labels" 
> 
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/ 
> 
> espacially 
> 
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/datastrings.html 
> 
> is a good hint for you. 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Olaf
Not really as there wasn't any explanation of what was happening.  Lets try this with a different approach.  What if the first record is a comment line and therefore csv metadata.

Is there a way to get GNUPlot to display that comment line as a caption?

D.

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Newb question David Partridge <david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk> - 2021-09-07 04:04 -0700
  Re: Newb question Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2021-09-07 13:51 +0200
    Re: Newb question David Partridge <david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk> - 2021-09-08 01:11 -0700
      Re: Newb question Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2021-09-09 09:51 +0200

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