vsdeepthi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am trying to understand an old code which generated charts. It takes arrays as input for x and y axis and generates graphs using print statements. I debug the programs to see for loaded modules, but it is not making use of any Perl Modules to do so. I am wondering if anyone could help me in understanding this,

print "\@with line\n"; print "\@ line on\n"; print "\@ line loctype view\n"; printf "\@ line %.3f, 0.2, %.3f, 0.8\n", $viewx, $viewx; print "\@ line linewidth 2\n"; print "\@ line linestyle 1\n"; print "\@ line arrow 0\n"; print "\@line def\n"; print "\@with string\n"; print "\@ string on\n"; print "\@ string loctype view\n"; printf "\@ string %.3f, %.3f\n", $labx, 0.25 unless $top; printf "\@ string %.3f, %.3f\n", $labx, 0.75 if $top;

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Re: Charts using perl
by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 14, 2011 at 10:47 UTC

    After quickly searching Google it would seem this is an extract of a Perl script for generating charts with ACE/gr. There are many modules for charts/graphs on CPAN.

      marto: Your google-fu is obviously far greater than mine. Can you please give the search-term strategy that caused Google to regurgitate ACE/gr?

        Click the google link I provided, the first result is titled "ACE/gr parameter file", which contains an example file similar to this one. Searching google for "ACE/gr" reveals the rest.

        Cheers

      Thanks a ton Marto