Plotting ASCII files in ROOT
I am trying to write a small macro that reads data from an ASCII file that has 4 columns. But I want to graph only the second the third columns as (x, y). The constructor of TGraph can directly take a CSV file, see the documentation . TGraph g("data.csv", "%*lg %lg %lg %*lg", ","); The first argument is the filename, and the second argument a format string. Skipped columns are denoted with a * ; to skip the last column you could actually just omit it from the format string, %*lg %lg %lg The third argument is the column separator which might be , for your flavor of CSV. follow this example: