gnuplot error: Bad format character

Question

Am new to gnuplot but need o use it urgently. This is the following set of commands I used:

set  terminal  latex
set output “conflict.tex”
set xtics (\"rando         


        

Answer 1

One obvious problem are the non-ASCII quotation marks. Replace them with ".

The next problem might be the % characters, since those are comment characters for LaTeX. It might be necessary to escape them with a backslash: \%.

Finally, your data file could have a non-standard separator. You might need to set the datafile separator.

Answer 2

Recently I had the same problem with escaping ("Bad format character") in xtics().

This should work:

set xtics ("random"  2, "sharing(0\%%)"  1, ...)

What helped me, was to look at the generated tex file.

Answer 3

You have used two types of quotation mark:

“...” and "..."

I guess it's a problem.