I've done an example like this where the perl script
wrote a GNUPLOT script and then executed it using ` `.
It's quick and dirty but it works.
-Tim
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Greg London wrote:
> We have some statistics in the form of a text file.
> We want a graph of those numbers in the form of some sort of image format
> like jpeg or png or whatever.
>
> A coworker has been trying to get a perl module called Chart to do it, but
> has been running into difficulties. He came to me with questions but i don't
> know Chart. Then we got into a discusion of how we *should* be doing this,
> and i had to confess i've had to do this sort of thing many times before,
> but just didn't know what the 'go to' module would be.
>
> Id even be happy if there was a command line interface to open office so i
> could write a command line script to load a comma separated file and spit
> out a graph as a png.
>
> Recommendations?
> Greg
>
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