Import

After clicking the Import menu item an Open Panel appears and one or more ASCII file can be selected for importing.

SciPlot supports three ASCII formats (which can be selected in the Open Panel). In all formats any character which cannot be part of a number can serve as delimiter between numbers.

Multicolumn Import

    	[X-Value]   [Y1-Value]   [Y2-Value]   ...   [Yn-Value]

The X Column Field allows to specify the column number which is to be assigned to X (default is 1).

Error Bar Import
This method allows importing data in 2,3 or 4 columns. Mixing of 2,3 or 4 column rows in one file is possible.
         
           	[X-Value]   [Y-Value]  
 or      	[X-Value]   [Y-Value]    [plus/minus error] 
 or      	[X-Value]   [Y-Value]    [plus error]   [minus error]

One Column Import
Is for one column data. The complementary value (X or Y) will be set equal to the data point sequence number.

Comments
If Comment Enabled is selected (in the Open Panel) SciPlot supports the following syntax for importing comments and axis text:

COMMENT<n>: comment	import comment for column n
XTEXT: text 		import x axis text	
YTEXT: text 		import y axis text	

Begining from the first comment character (defined in the Comment Character  field) the rest of the line will be ignored.