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Subject: Re: plot for [i = 'list of numbers']
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:07:07 +0200
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On 13.07.2021 14:37, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 13.07.2021 um 14:11 schrieb Jörg Buchholz:
> 
>> list = "6 8 9"
>> plot for [i in list] 'file' skip 6 u 2:i w l t sprintf("T_%i",i-2)
> 
> Close, but no cigar.  The string-based list does not work like that
> because its elements evaluated by the for loop are still strings.
> 
> The following would have worked, though:
> 
> 
>     plot for [i in "6 8 9"] 'file' u 2:int(i)
> 
> The following may be more useful.  See "help arrays" to understand what
> it does:
> 
>     n = 3
>     array list[n] = [6, 8, 9]
>     plot for [i in 1:n] 'file' u 2:list[i]
> 
> 
Thanks a lot. At the moment I prefer your first solution, cause I
understood it "out of the box".

Jörg