title: Saving gretl data in a .txt to plot with gnuplot causes problems due to scientific notation. How can I circumvent that?
body: <p>I'm very new to the software so apologies if the question is redundant. Couldn't find the exact solution to my problem.</p>
  
  <p>I got a stata file (.dta) which I'm accessing with gretl. However, the plotting through the gretl interface is very limited so I want to directly use gnuplot.</p>
  
  <p>I have no idea how to access the .dta file with gnuplot so I saved some variables from gretl in .txt files to try to plot them. Unfortunately though it then reads for example 5,86696e-005 as a value of 5,xxx and not as a number between 0 and 1. So even though all the data stored in the variables should be between 0 and 1, I get some values of 9 or 5.</p>
  
  <p>Also the data is comma separated because it's european data. Maybe that is the problem?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help</p>