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how to section comment in a DSPF file

Svilen64

Hi,

I am using an extracted netlist DSPF file and I need to comment a bunch of lines. I was wondering if there is a possibility to comment everything at once. I tried /*   */ but it doesn't work and generates errors when I started the spectre simulation. Of course, I can always go and put * at the beginning of each and every line but that will be a lot of * and time needed to spend on this.

Thanks

Svilen

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Svilen,

    I don't believe the DSPF standard supports multi-line or block comments.

    However, this is pretty easy to do in most editors. For example, in vi you might do:

    1. Go to the first line and hit "ma" (to mark the first line)
    2. Go to the last line and then enter:
      1. :'a,.s/^/*/

    To remove them, it would be the same step, but the 2a above would be :'a,.s/^\*//

    In nedit, select the lines you want to comment, and then do Search->Replace, enter "^" as the String to Find, "*" as the Replace With, and check regular expression, then press the "Selection" button to apply in the selected block:

    To remove them the String to Find would be "^\*" and the Replace With would be blank.

    Andrew

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Svilen,

    I don't believe the DSPF standard supports multi-line or block comments.

    However, this is pretty easy to do in most editors. For example, in vi you might do:

    1. Go to the first line and hit "ma" (to mark the first line)
    2. Go to the last line and then enter:
      1. :'a,.s/^/*/

    To remove them, it would be the same step, but the 2a above would be :'a,.s/^\*//

    In nedit, select the lines you want to comment, and then do Search->Replace, enter "^" as the String to Find, "*" as the Replace With, and check regular expression, then press the "Selection" button to apply in the selected block:

    To remove them the String to Find would be "^\*" and the Replace With would be blank.

    Andrew

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  • Svilen64
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks, Andrew, for replying. I actually did it with nedit regular expression pretty much the same as you explained.

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