[Kst] Ascii comment char ignored

[Barth Netterfield]

Hi,

Thanks for the report.  This is definitely looks like a regression.

You can report bugs like this to bugzilla.  You can get to it through kst via 
Help->Bug Report Wizard

thanks again for the report.  We'll look into it.

cbn

On November 20, 2014 7:07:53 AM Berse, Matthias wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have posted this a while ago, no one answered so I try again.
> 
> BTW what is the correct way to report bugs for Kst?
> 
> I am using 2.0.8 on Windows but also verified that this bug exists on Linux.
> 
> My csv file looks like this
> 
> #time, valuea, valueb
> 2014-10-23 16:42:23, 73, 42
> 
> I can easyly use the first line as column headers.
> 
> # is set as the comment char
> 
> Now the file is created by a logging thread, which will everytime it is
> started just write the line with the column headers. So it is repeated
> multiple times in various locations of my ASCII file.
> 
> When I create plots from such a file, everytime the "header" is repeated
> after the first time, the date gets interpretet as 1.1.1970. This makes it
> quite hard to get new users to use KST since they need to zoom to the right
> protion of the data in order to see something useful.
> 
> In short, I would expect all lines starting with a # being ignored by kst.
> Once exception: the line with the column headers. There I would suggest
> just to remove the comment char.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthias
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