Re^2: How to declare variables per loop

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you very much!
I compose commands for gnuplot in the following way (it is all a single line):

plot $years $yscala "$abc_this_01" title "" with errorbars lt rgb "$co
+lor_abc" lw 2, "$abc_this_01" title "{/Helvetica=10 ABC_Stuff}" with 
+lines lt rgb "$color_abc" lw 3,"$def_this_01" title "" with errorbars
+ lt rgb "$color_def" lw 2, "$def_this_01" title "{/Helvetica=10 DEF_S
+tuff}" with lines lt rgb "$color_def" lw 3, "$ghi_this_01" title "" w
+ith errorbars lt rgb "$color_ghi" lw 2, "$ghi_this_01" title "{/Helve
+tica=10 GHI_Stuff}" with lines lt rgb "$color_ghi" lw 3, "$jkl_this_0
+1" title "" with errorbars lt rgb "$color_jkl" lw 2, "$jkl_this_01" t
+itle "{/Helvetica=10 JKL_Stuff}" with lines lt rgb "$color_jkl" lw 5,
+ "$mno_this_01" with steps lt 1 lw 5 title "{/Helvetica=10 Abnormalit
+y Border}"

and the files looks like this:

# Value Low High
2006 78.6 76.5 80.6
2007 86.3 84.7 87.6
2008 92.7 92.3 93.1
2009 95.3 94.9 95.6
2010 96.8 96.5 97.1
2011 97.0 96.5 97.5

It plots diagramms with the values (plus y-errorbars) from four sources (abc, def ...) and with the abnormality border. There are ca. 20 topics ("this", "that" etc.) with up to 8 subgroups (01, 02 etc.).
I have indeed the feeling that the composition is somehow ugly. Leastwise it works :-)
However I would be very glad for any suggestion how I could organize the data better.
Thanks again.
VE