From: Jean Dupont Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: using gnuplot to modify table Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:26:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 17 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.190.130.128 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1328005810 16843 127.0.0.1 (31 Jan 2012 10:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q8g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.190.130.128; posting-account=Ze39fQoAAAA43Ez-dgCUvxHYN1rOASaw User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111108 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16),gzip(gfe) Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.franciliens.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!74.125.64.80.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!q8g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:879 Is it possible to use gnuplot to manipulate a table as follows: This is the format of the original table: textstring columnvalue1 columnvalue2 columnvalue3 I want the new table like this: columnvalue3 columnvalue1 columnvalue2 I tried this: set table 'output.dat' but plot 'originaltable.dat' u 4:2:3 does not give the result I expected, does anyone here how to do it correctly (using Gnuplot of course) Jean