Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: tom Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: plot number variable Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <10024470-1ab0-4059-868d-704feb82e8c4@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.156.207.110 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1338542019 1118 127.0.0.1 (1 Jun 2012 09:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:13:39 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.156.207.110; posting-account=LFq_8goAAAAXN4UG3L5mC_QVnF5WEUG8 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1174 On Thursday, 31 May 2012 21:41:00 UTC+2, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote: > make that >=20 > plot plotnum=3D0, \ > 'file1' u 1:2:(plotnum) w l palette great that was exactly the kind of thing/workarourn I was looking for! and thank you Ethan, what you suggested was ok but unfortunately I use exte= nsively pipe filenames that are quite complicated, something like: plot num=3D0, num=3Dnum+1, "< lettore -f '/Users/tommaso/local/sim/multi/si= mulationsLIL/100SiO2-20C-seuil.dat' -x -T -t -s -1 -S 5990 -U 1 -a 0 -A= 20 -b 0 -u 100 -B 5000" using 1:2:(num) notitle with l lw 3 palette , num= =3Dnum+1, "< lettore -f '/Users/tommaso/local/sim/multi/simulationsLIL/100S= iO2-50C-seuil.dat' -x -T -t -s -1 -S 5990 -U 1 -a 0 -A 20 -b 0 -u 100 -= B 5000" using 1:2:(num) notitle with l lw 3 palette (of course these are created via gui I don't have to type all this by hand!= ) thanks again everybody, I really appreciate gnuplot mostly because of this = place!