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Re: Extracting data from datafiles

From sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject Re: Extracting data from datafiles
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Date 2013-05-19 10:04 -0700
Organization gnuplot development team
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sander.peter@lycos.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have many long datafiles like this:
> 
> ...
> _Flags = 5
> _StepTime = 0.2
> _StepSize = 0.024
> _2d = 8.7522
> _LineName = "Cu KA1-HS-Min"
> _X-Counts
> 15.000	493.2
> 15.024	485.2
> 15.048	514.3
> 15.072	453.2
> 15.096	443.2
> 15.120	470.2
> 15.144	432.2
> 15.168	448.2
> ...
> 
> Now I'd like to use the value of StepTime and 2d (2.2 and 8.7522 in
> this case) as a variable affecting the data in both columns, before
> plotting.
> 
> How to get these two numbers out of each datafile ?

How about 
    load "< head -5 datafile"
That will execute the first five lines, so now you have those 
five variables defined.

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Extracting data from datafiles sander.peter@lycos.com - 2013-05-19 08:32 -0700
  Re: Extracting data from datafiles sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-05-19 10:04 -0700
    Re: Extracting data from datafiles sander.peter@lycos.com - 2013-05-19 13:07 -0700
  Re: Extracting data from datafiles Michael <proximum@land.ru> - 2013-05-20 22:44 +0700

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