SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR

SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR (SET)

Set Subcommand

Specify whether the hyphen ("-") will be treated as a word separator when parsing a command.

By default, Dataplot treats the hyphen as a word separator when parsing a command line. This command can be used to specify that hyphens will not be treated as word separators.

This command was added internally to support the INSERT COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS command. However, it can be used explicitly by users. It would primarily be used before commands that have file names as arguments (READ, WRITE, CALL, LIST). This allows file names that contains hyphens to be entered without enclosing the file name in quotes (although the quotes are still required if the file name contains spaces).

SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR <ON/OFF>
where ON specifies that hyphens will be treated as word separators while OFF specifies that they will not.

SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR ON
SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR OFF

ON

None

INSERT COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS

=

Define the command line arguments.

Utility command for parsing file names

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SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR OFF
READ SAMPLE-DATA.TXT Y X
SET HYPHEN WORD SEPARATOR ON