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From: Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:51:27 -0700
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Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:

> On Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:55:46 AM UTC+2, Bart Vandewoestyne
> wrote:
>>
>> As you can see, currently the xticlabels are taken from the first
>> column.  I would like the xticlabels to be the concatenation of
>> columns 2, 3 and 4.  I tried
>> 
>> plot "BigBenchTimes_short.csv" using
>> 7:(xticlabels(stringcolumn(2).stringcolumn(3).stringcolumn(4))) ti ""
>> 
>> but this gives me a segmentation fault:
>> 
>> bart@speedwing:~/Dropbox/Public/gnuplot$ gnuplot BigBenchTimes.pl
>> 
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> I just noticed that the following *does* work:
> 
> plot "BigBenchTimes_short.csv" using 7:xticlabels(sprintf("%s, stream
> %s, query %s", stringcolumn(2), stringcolumn(3), stringcolumn(4))) ti
> ""
> 
> Exactly what I needed, so first problem solved :-)
> 
> For showing the milliseconds in HH:MM:SS.SSS I haven't figured out a
> solution yet.  I tried several things with
> 
>   set ydata time
> 
> or
> 
>   set format y "%H:%M:%S"
> 
> but didn't find something that works yet.  Any hints on this one are
> still welcome.

  yticlabels(8)

will echo back what's in the file.  Is that what you want?


> 
> Regards,
> Bart