Execute only the procedure of a program

Hi,

Your question is so vague... are you even talking about SKILL?

An example of what you have and what you want to achieve would be welcome.

Let's assume what you call the main program is Virtuoso and that you want to call a specific SKILL function.

If you have a file like ~/skill/example.il which contains : 

(defun example_procedure ()
  (info "calling `example_procedure'")
  )

Then yes, you can load this file in Virtuoso and then call `example_procedure'.

CIW> (load (simplifyFilename "~/skill/example.il"))
-> t
CIW> (example_procedure)
calling `example_procedure'
-> nil

If your file is not defining functions but running code directly, this can be very dangerous, as shown in the following example :

The file ~/skill/example.il could contain

(deleteFile ...)

And when loading them you might erase files.

For example...

Content of the sub-program:

printf("test")

procedure(greet()

printf("Happy Birthday")

);end procedure

...

Now, in the main program I want to call the sub program above. But just the procedure "greet()" should be executed, not the "printf(test")".

Then no, there is no trivial way to just define the `greet' procedure.

That is why it is advised to write SKILL files that only define procedures (except for what you call the "main" program)

So they can be loaded and their procedures can be called individually

In your case, you could write a function that parses the SKILL expressions inside a given file (usually this is done using `lineread') and only evaluate the S-expressions starting with `defun' or `procedure' but I would advise you not to do so as this is very unusual.

Ok, thank you for your quick response.