how to print the absolute/relative path from file

Hi,

If you expect me to help I need better problem descriptions! What exactly is that script/callback supposed to do in the first place? What do you mean by "output"? That callback's return value maybe? And what is the content of these files? I've been trying to understand your problem for the last 15 mins but to no avail! Not to mention that you keep sending your code without any indentations which renders it unreadable - well at least for me. The less time I need to reproduce your issue the better chance you have that I look into it!
So please provide a clear problem description and an explanation what I need to do to see the behavior at my end.

Max

Hi Max,

apologies,

if you run above code...you will get this

Now when i give my setting file 1 path which contains

source netlist1                                                    

top cell  test21

you will get 

but if if give setting2 file which constains

source /xyz/path1/path2/netlist1   

top cell  test21

so the netlist path am getting wrong.

Hope it clears some clouds.

I guess what you are looking for is simplifyFilename

This function takes a path in argument and gives you the fully expanded path

If you give it your relative path, it will expand it in the current directory, if you give it the full path it will leave it as is

Hope this help

Cheers

Aurélien

I reformatted your code in the initial post - see it's much easier to read now? Usually you can do this in most browsers by saving the code in a file with a ".txt" suffix and loading it in the browser, and then copying and pasting into the forum (other methods are available if that doesn't work).

Your "setting" file examples also ought to use "topcell" not "top cell".

Essentially you'll need to fix the logic in this part of the code:

              (("source")
                test = parseString(setup_file_path "/")
                test_dir = append1((reverse (cdr (reverse test))) commandArgs)
                netpath = buildString(test_dir "/" )
                form->netlistPath->value = strcat("/" netpath)
              )

to either check for the path beginning with "/" or to maybe use simplifyFilename. At the moment it is just blindly prepending the path of the set up file to the beginning of the netlist path. If your requirements are different than that, you'll need to write code to perform that different behaviour.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew,
Is there any command in skill to check whether the path begins with "/"  like pattern matching.

These two amongst others:

; because of a bug in the forums, I can't paste code calling the right function. So I used specialFunction instead. It should be a function
; which is a single word that begins with "sub" and ends in "string" - I just can't enter "substring"
specialFunction(setup_file_path 1 1)=="/"

pcreMatchp("^/" setup_file_path)

Ah, turns out that it does allow me to use "substring" in quotes. That's the function name I meant to use where specialFunction was. Sorry, if I use the correct function name directly, the forum posting gives an error.

Andrew

Thank you Andrew :}}