Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hermann Peifer Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: using gnuplot to modify table Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:19 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net TnZHABPuCltGVkRfiQwivNqXjJG7bX+xJ7URblUZhQ04brk0u9QfpEFO5CFBnZW6Kp9lkDZ1kdXVl+ZwKqNy1w== NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="1I1EnXwlLuKR7zYugbZ3EzJubbj3UcVte8RdF+xManDbZ6QGWTS23Xw4K0HNePBrr/U/0UwLJ9xf5s/jcVir+yYh3qKf9U/xDdnCE4qpyw0vp269haKOg/P8yrDg1vQC"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:L+m0yA/brBq1zrBulWgfojEcVPs= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:880 On 31/01/2012 10:26, Jean Dupont wrote: > 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 > system( "awk '{print $4,$2,$3}' originaltable.dat > output.dat" ) Hermann