Hi Dennis, I have looked at your suggestions, and I have made 1 change to the program, so it now always puts in the hyphen for consecutive designator numbers, whilst stripping similar prefixes. The other suggestions are noted, but I will have to put them on the back-burner for now. Your comment about the 'unformatted' option is noted, but all I've written there is a 'dumb' bit of code that simply looks at similar Part Types and Footprints, and tots them up without even looking at the designators. It's probably just a matter of preference, so I've written what I prefer! The code is unlocked, so anyone can play with it and perhaps come up with some better ideas.
Version 6 now available at: http://www.proteluser.com/download/ Regards David Watling Dennis Saputelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> olsinc.com> cc: Subject: Re: [PEDA] BOM sorter version 3 26-Jun-2003 04:44 PM Please respond to Protel EDA Forum i had a quick look nice! not to look a gift horse in the mouth but ... re 'Sort without formatting' the only difference i notice is that the designator prefix character is not stripped for items after the first this is my preferred appearance R1 R5 R6 or R1,R5,R6 as opposed to R1,5,6 but using the unformatted method the designators are not properly sorted! i know it is a pain in the butt to do that sort of a sort, but i have done it in the distant past including an optional 'crunch' R1 R32 R33 R34 R35 R72 would crunch to R1 R32-R35 R72 another minor thought it might be nice to have an option to not use commas to separate the designators we use a downstream process which requires the commaa to be stripped -- Dennis Saputelli ========= send only plain text please! - no HTML ========== _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. www.integratedcontrolsinc.com 2851 21st Street tel: 415-647-0480 San Francisco, CA 94110 fax: 415-647-3003 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *