## Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 Teemu Ikonen
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __errplot__ (@var{args})
## Really plot errorbar plots. User interface in function errorbar.
##
## @example
## __errplot__ (@var{arg1}, @var{arg2}, ..., @var{fmt})
## @end example
##
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{semilogx, semilogy, loglog, polar, mesh, contour, __pltopt__
## bar, stairs, errorbar, replot, xlabel, ylabel, and title}

## Created: 18.7.2000
## Author: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi>
## Keywords: errorbar, plotting

function __errplot__ (fstr,a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6)

  if (nargin < 3 || nargin > 7) # at least three data arguments needed
    usage ("__errplot__ (fmt, arg1, ...)");
  endif

  fmt = __pltopt__ ("__errplot__", fstr);

  nplots = size (a1, 2);
  len = size (a1, 1);
  for i = 1:nplots
    ifmt = fmt(1+mod(i,size(fmt,1)), :);
    switch (nargin - 1)
      case 2
	tmp = [(1:len)', a1(:,i), a2(:,i)];
      case 3
	tmp = [a1(:,i), a2(:,i), a3(:,i)];
      case 4
	if (index (ifmt, "boxxy") || index (ifmt, "xyerr"))
	  tmp = [a1(:,i), a2(:,i), a3(:,i), a4(:,i)];
	elseif (index (ifmt, "xerr"))
	  tmp = [a1(:,i), a2(:,i), a1(:,i)-a3(:,i), a1(:,i)+a4(:,i)];
	else
	  tmp = [a1(:,i), a2(:,i), a2(:,i)-a3(:,i), a2(:,i)+a4(:,i)];
	endif
      case 5
	error ("error plot requires 2, 3, 4 or 6 columns");
	## tmp = [a1(:,i), a2(:,i), a3(:,i), a4(:,i), a5(:,i)];
      case 6
	tmp = [a1(:,i), a2(:,i), ...
	       a1(:,i)-a3(:,i), a1(:,i)+a4(:,i), ...
	       a2(:,i)-a5(:,i), a2(:,i)+a6(:,i)];
    endswitch
    cmd = sprintf ("__gnuplot_plot__ tmp %s", ifmt);
    eval (cmd);
endfor

endfunction