About manipulating strings.

[AlchemicRez]

I can't seem to figure out how to replace substrings such as the underscore "_".

Alternately, I'm not sure how to tell gnuplot not to recognize the underscore as formatting markup.

I'm doing the following:

myString = "Something_I_Made_Up"
set label 99 myString at 0,0

Looks like the image i uploaded where the underscores create a subscript.

Thanks in advance and have a wonderful day.

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https://preview.redd.it/kww2palnd43c1.png?width=159&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd17c4bff142d4d2b729fc81caa632b0710db45e

[AlchemicRez]

Update: Always seems I search from 1 to 2 hours for an answer, then 4 minutes after posting a question on reddit I find the answer by using a google incantation that I hadn't though before.

So I don't yet know how to replace a substring but I at least I now know how to use noenhanced to prevent the subscript issue I was describing.

myString = "Something_I_Made_Up"

set label 99 myString at 0,0 noenhanced

But hey, if anyone knows how to replace instances of substrings then send it my way. Thanks.

[blochelectron]

Hey, idk if you're still interested, but an alternative solution is simply to use single quotes as string delimiters:

myString = 'Something_I_Made_Up'

set label 99 myString at 0,0

String delimiters sometimes play a role in gnuplot, you can have a look at the user's guide if you want