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From: sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Question about sprintf
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Olaf Schultz wrote:

> 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...

$6 is shorthand for column(6), which returns a numeric value.
The equivalent for string data is stringcolumn(6), for which
the shorthand is strcol(6)

	Ethan


> 
> Syntax missmatch? fprint does not work... upgrade (My sysadd at work
> may do this:-)
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Olaf