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Subject: Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:03:03 +0200
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On 10.06.2020 13:07, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
> In on file the data spaces are separated by a space and in the other one
> they are separated with <tab>, requiring set datafile separator "\t".
> 
> How can I say plot "file1.txt", "file2.txt", to be compatible with both?
> 

Here the default "whitespace" works with both separators (Tabulator and
Space).

set datafile separator whitespace

Jörg