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ARB9

I'm making a python code that will write SKILL code that will place pads into a pad ring. As of right now, when placed, the pads all have the same exact labels. While this works for most, I do want to have some of them change. For example, there is something named P and something named PADR1. I want these names to change to P<n> and PADR1<n> where n is the number pad that is being placed. I found a post from 13 years ago that was close to solving the problem using rexMatchp and rexReplace. To call The function these were in looked something like: ReplaceFunction( "old string"  "new string"). This came really close to working. I did run into a couple problems with it, however. First, when my code places the pads for the ring, it isn't in the right view to be able to change labels. What I mean by that is that you have to double click and/or shift-f to see a view that has the labels up. So the first thing I want to know is how to get to the correct view using SKILL to be able to edit the labels. The second issue I ran into was that, when I used the ReplaceFunction, I got some funky results. For example, if I did ReplaceFunction( "P"  "P<0>"), everywhere that had a P in the name anywhere would get effected. This means that, yes P was changed to P<0>, but also that PADR1 was changed to P<0>ADR1. Is there any way make SKILL look at the whole string instead of just looking at a string, and say "This has that P at the start of a longer string, better replace it!" Any help y'all could give would be a huge help. Thank you :)

  • mbracht

    Hi,

    I have to admit that I understand your problem only partially - specifically I have no idea why you create the SKILL code with python...but anyway.
    As for your "view issue" a shift-f does not switch the view - it only turns on the visibility of figures in all levels of the design hierarchy. A double click does something entirely different - it calls the leDoubleClick() function which makes an edit in place of an instance. So I assuming that what you want is the cell view object of  an instance's master, that's easy,- deselect everything, then select the instance in question and then
    (car (geGetSelectedSet))->master

    Now as for your replace problem you should use the pcre API and specify so called anchors indicating the beginning and the end of a string (^ for begin of string and $ for end of string) :
    (pcreReplace (pcreCompile "^P$") <your label text...> "P<0>" 0)
    That way "P" will become "P<0>" but "PADR1" will remain unchanged.

    Hope that helps at least a little...

    Max

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