On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:55 +0100, Didier Villevalois wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I found something strange happening when i have $ characters in Connect > nodes in pcb files. When i try to "Optimize rats nets", pcb can't find > elements which have refdes with a $ as the last but one character. > > For instance, having "J$k-1" makes pcb not find the pin 1 of element > "J$k". However, having something like "S$k/IC1-1" doesn't seem a problem > for pcb... > > Can someone help me with this ? I can't change this name as "$k" is > matched to a variable in my layout assembly script to go from gschem to pcb. > > Also, I can't find any mention in the pcb documentation telling $ is a > forbidden character. It looks like a regexp is used somewhere and the > string used ti build that regexp is not well escaped.
More likely the issue is with lowercase suffixes. PCB has historically ignored any trailing lowercase characters in a refdes, so where you have J$k-1, it sees "J$-1" I'm not sure whether $ is a legal / sensible character to use though, as it is almost certainly special to M4, which the package names get passed through by gsch2pcb. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
