How to replace a part of a net name in Layout editor

See this other post - that should explain how to do it (it's in the documentation too, of course).

Regards,

Andrew.

I just noticed that it was you that asked the original question! I'm sure that's embarrassing for you...

My original reply was just for the schematic editor (not layout editor), but that's all you're asking for here.

Kind Regards,

Andrew.

Dear Andrew,

Oh Sorry,,

I mistakenly wrote schematic composer/editor in the post. Is it possible to change the Topic. This I wanted for layout editor.

In that post you have mentioned in the schematic editor. I have asked the same for the layout editor. I thought it may be trivial.

Latter I tried myself in the layout editor. I was able to find and replace the nets. But couldn't replace the pattern in the desired way.

I tried for example:-

to replace cde_TEST_efg<1:10> by using

cde_TEST_efg<*> ----> cde_CHECK_efg<{1}> and then Apply

It searched it out but it replaced all the nets of cde_TEST_efg<1:10>  as  cde_CHECK_efg<{1}>

I have net patterns like

abc_TEST_fde

cde_TEST_efg<1:10>

TEST_ wqq<0:8>

I want  nets replace as:-

 abc_CHECK_fde

cde_CHECK_efg<1:10>

CHECK_ wqq<0:8>

 Kind Regards,

is it posssible to chnage the edit the subject ?

You can change the subject when you reply (as I just did).

As far as I can tell, there's no support for using part of the found pattern in the replace string in the layout search and replace (it's not covered in the documentation, and the attempts I made using regular expression syntax didn't work either).

But a simple bit of SKILL code can do this (I'm assuming it's the labels you want to change, given your previous post):

procedure(CCFchangeLabelPattern(fromExpr toExpr @optional (cvId geGetEditCellView()))
  rexCompile(fromExpr)
  foreach(shape cvId~>shapes
    when(shape~>objType=="label" && rexExecute(shape~>theLabel)
      shape~>theLabel=rexSubstitute(toExpr) || shape~>theLabel
    )
  )
  t
)

Then use:

 CCFchangeLabelPattern("\\(.*\\)TEST\\(.*\\)" "\\1CHECK\\2")

What the \\(...\\) parts are doing are recording that part of the regular expression for later substitution by the rexSubstitute - and then \\1 means the first bracketed part, and \\2 means the second bracketed part, etc.

If you're talking about altering the actual net objects in the database (e.g. because you've been using layout XL), then that's a bit more complicated - but I think you may be asking about altering labels.

Regards,

Andrew.

Dear Andrew,

Thanks a lot.
I changed the subject.

Yes I only want Label that is more than enough for me.

Kind Regards,