Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=F6ker?= <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Gnuplot 4.6 bug? lines not being drawn
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:06:27 +0100
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <aouvknFg9u0U1@mid.dfncis.de>
References: <25126f7c-fe89-45d1-ba39-9c0aa8006efa@googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.dfncis.de emTUfsf9KlGzDv6yQn9JAQhANIVEXwjXyuPKIKAMZFE+Rxv+f/BuKNA2nPGfimtbZCOT/f4k23
Cancel-Lock: sha1:DrYDuut/YHxhUf/mhOv25nx+xis=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2
In-Reply-To: <25126f7c-fe89-45d1-ba39-9c0aa8006efa@googlegroups.com>
Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1663

On 24.02.2013 04:25, marcelojara@gmail.com wrote:

> plot 'data.txt' using 1:(stringcolumn(3) eq "a"? $2:1/0) notitle with lines

> This works fine if I use "with dots", "with impules", etc. But it
> does not draw anything when I use "with lines" or "with steps".

> Is this a known issue?

That's pretty impossible to tell without seeing at least a sample of the 
actual data.

But do note that 'with lines' only connects consecutive points in your 
data file.  Blank lines interrupt the line, so it may be that your line 
consists of nothing but interruptions, which would make it no line at all.