# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1268766280 14400
# Node ID f06ede00fd8f9f218f6a770246722d7b684bb36d
# Parent  976e76b77fa061b169524990018c810e56eee893
save: separate variables by blank line in Octave text format files

diff -r 976e76b77fa0 -r f06ede00fd8f src/ChangeLog
--- a/src/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 16 15:33:35 2010 +0100
+++ b/src/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 16 15:04:40 2010 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-03-16  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* ls-oct-ascii.cc (save_ascii_data): Insert extra newline after
+	data is written to file.  From Brett Stewart <btstewart@wisc.edu>.
+
 2010-03-16  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
 
 	* ov-base.h (unary_mapper_t::umap_cbrt): New enum member.
diff -r 976e76b77fa0 -r f06ede00fd8f src/ls-oct-ascii.cc
--- a/src/ls-oct-ascii.cc	Tue Mar 16 15:33:35 2010 +0100
+++ b/src/ls-oct-ascii.cc	Tue Mar 16 15:04:40 2010 -0400
@@ -333,6 +333,12 @@
 
   success = val.save_ascii (os);
 
+  // Insert an extra newline after data set so that multiple data
+  // elements may be handled separately by gnuplot (see the description
+  // of the index qualifier for the plot command in the gnuplot
+  // documentation).
+  os << "\n";
+
   os.precision (old_precision);
 
   return (os && success);