Personally, I think it should probably be disabled... AFAIK # works for comments, and what are the advantages of having multiple comment characters?
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Oh, this is the problem with allowing % for comments, but not parsing > quotes. Last time we discussed this, I thought we decided that % should not > be a comment character. Should we disable it? > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Kevin Green < > kevin.richard.green at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was just playing around with this in the recent petsc-dev, and noticed >> the following: >> >> It works fine when provided from the command line, but when used in a >> file with -options_file, I get the error: >> >> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message >> ------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: ! >> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ts_monitor_draw_solution_vtk requires a file template, >> e.g. filename-%03d.vts! >> [0]PETSC ERROR: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development HG revision: >> 117b19d7e9971ca4c134171ccd46df7d0d54c1e1 HG Date: Thu Jan 10 09:41:10 2013 >> -0600 >> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates. >> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting. >> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages. >> [0]PETSC ERROR: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./cortex on a arch-linux2-c-debug named >> kg-ThinkPad-X220-Tablet by kg Thu Jan 10 11:44:39 2013 >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from >> /home/kg/libs/petsc-dev/arch-linux2-c-debug/lib >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Thu Jan 10 11:05:06 2013 >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-debugging=1 --with-x=1 >> PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug >> [0]PETSC ERROR: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: TSSetFromOptions() line 220 in src/ts/interface/ts.c >> [0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 225 in src/main.c >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> This is the first time I've ever had a difference between command line >> and -options_file behaviour... Is it a bug, or is there something special >> about using string commands in -options_file that I just don't know about? >> >> Cheers, >> Kevin >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu>wrote: >>> >>>> Wouldn't it be trivial for a DMDA? >>> >>> >>> It should be, but I was trying to buy some time because I was picking up >>> projects at a seemingly exponential rate this week, despite prior >>> obligations. ;-) >>> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20130110/992da621/attachment.html>
