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Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators

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On 11.06.20 21:24, Karl Ratzsch wrote:
> Am 10.06.2020 um 15:43 schrieb Jean-Pierre Coulon:
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Jörg Buchholz wrote:
>>
>>> Here the default "whitespace" works with both separators
>>> (Tabulator and
>>> Space).
>>>
>>> set datafile separator whitespace
>>
>> In my second file I have: set timefmt "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S" and now
>> when I plot the second file using 1:2 gnuplot believes the hour
>> field is my second column. Same with 1:3.
>>
>> I know how to workaround with multiplot but I thought it could be
>> simpler.
> 
> The timeformat specifier should win against any datafile separator.
> At least I was pretty sure it used to. That however doesn´t seem to
> be the case both in gp5.3rc1 and 4.6.6. Hmmm ....
> 
> 
> $dat << EOD
> 03/04/2020 14:14:14 654
> 03/04/2020 15:15:15 543
> 03/04/2020 16:16:16 654
> EOD
> 
> #set dataf sep ...
> 
> set xdata time
> set timefmt "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"
> plot $dat us (timecolumn(1)):3 w lp ps 3
> 

Thanks to point this out, this can result in less work. GP 5.0.5 Debian
Stretch.

Jörg

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plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> - 2020-06-10 13:07 +0200
  Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2020-06-10 13:55 +0200
  Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2020-06-10 14:03 +0200
    Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> - 2020-06-10 15:43 +0200
      Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2020-06-11 07:11 +0200
        Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> - 2020-06-11 08:21 +0200
          Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2020-06-11 09:18 +0200
            Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2020-06-11 11:37 +0200
      Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2020-06-11 21:24 +0200
        Re: plotting 2 files with 2 different datafile separators Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2020-06-13 20:59 +0200

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