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| From | Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> |
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| Subject | Re: Newb question |
| Date | Thu, 9 Sep 2021 09:51:37 +0200 |
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On 08.09.2021 10:11, David Partridge wrote: > On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 12:51:40 PM UTC+1, Olaf Schultz wrote: >> On 9/7/21 13:04, David Partridge wrote: >>> I tried to find this out from the "friendly manual", but failed - too overwhelmed by information. >>> >>> I want GNUPlot to process a CSV whose 1st record provides "metadata" about the remainder of the data in the file (test conditions to be added as annotations to the plot). >>> >>> Is this easy to do? If so a pointer to a working example or tutorial for this would be hugely helpful. >>> >>> Thanks >>> David >>> >> Moin, perhaps >> >> try it with "with labels" >> >> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/ >> >> espacially >> >> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/datastrings.html >> >> is a good hint for you. >> >> Greetings, >> >> Olaf > Not really as there wasn't any explanation of what was happening. Lets try this with a different approach. What if the first record is a comment line and therefore csv metadata. > > Is there a way to get GNUPlot to display that comment line as a caption? > > D. > Hi David as a example, if your datafile is something like this and named "data.dat": This is the title 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 2 1 Than you can do the following and you have a plot with "This is the title" as the title. set datafile separator ";" set term unknow plot 'data.dat' every ::0::0 using (textVar=stringcolumn(1),0) set title textVar set datafile separator whitespace set term qt plot 'data.dat' skip 1 u 1:2 Jörg
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Newb question David Partridge <david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk> - 2021-09-07 04:04 -0700
Re: Newb question Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2021-09-07 13:51 +0200
Re: Newb question David Partridge <david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk> - 2021-09-08 01:11 -0700
Re: Newb question Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2021-09-09 09:51 +0200
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