[Kst] KST bug

[George Staikos]

I'll look into this asap.  Meanwhile, is it possible that you could file a bug 
against Kst in http://bugs.kde.org/ ?   Thank you.

On Thursday 04 December 2003 13:25, Karl Meredith wrote:
> I am new to using KST.  I noticed that there is a problem when reading
> in ascii data.  If the data is written in scientific notation with a
> capital E (ie. 1E-2) then kst cannot read it.  If it comes from stdin
> with a capital E, then kst reads it just fine.  Here's an example.
> I have three data files that should all result in the same plot.
>
> ==> test1.dat <==
> 1 0.1
> 2 0.3
> 3 0.2
>
> ==> test2.dat <==
> 1 1e-1
> 2 3e-1
> 3 2e-1
>
> ==> test3.dat <==
> 1 1E-1
> 2 3E-1
> 3 2E-1
>
> Typing
>
> >> kst -x 1 -y 2 test1.dat
>
> works just fine.  The plot comes up and looks good.
>
> Typing
>
> >> kst -x 1 -y 2 test2.dat
>
> still works just fine.
>
> Typing
>
> >> kst -x 1 -y 2 test3.dat
>
> doesn't give anything and kst exits.
>
> However, if I get test3.dat from stdin,
>
> >> cat test3.dat|kst -x 1 -y 2 stdin
>
> then it works just fine.
>
> I am working with some FORTRAN programs that output in the capital E
> scientific notation format.
>
> Also, on a side note, kst doesn't seem to plot the last data point in
> the file.
>
> Any fixes or help that you could provide on these issues would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl

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