Re: flexible filenames?

In article <W392k.119074$zc6.23511@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bart Vandewoestyne  <MyFirstName.MyLastName@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>In the gnuplot file, i use
>
>plot "data_dim01.dat" .......
>set out "graph_dim01.eps"
>
>Creating graphs for several dimensions would require several
>similar gnuplot files with only the number for the dimension
>changed.
>
>I was wondering if gnuplot has some kind of built-in feature to
>cope with this kind of situation.  Can I somehow define a variable for
>the dimension at the beginning of my gnuplot file, and then use this
>variable in the names of the `plot' and `set out' commands?

Yes, certainly.  Here is a simple example that show 2 possible
command variants for defining the file names.

  N = 1
  outfile = "graph_dim".N.".eps"
  infile  = sprintf("data_dim%02d.eps",N)

  set output outfile
  plot infile ....
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Ethan A Merritt