Re: [Help-gnucap] Using hash symbol (#) in a variable

[cliffnotes]

I understand now. It is far more important to us to allow the "#" in net and
device names than parameters. We will work around the issue.


al davis-13 wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 18 July 2009, cliffnotes wrote:
>> It would be nice to support 1 non-alphanumeric character to
>> allow us to allow us a hook for our tool to do some advanced
>> things. It can be an "@" or "|" or whatever, but "#" is a
>> character that I believe I have seen in the past used legally
>> in several simulators. Can you enhance the simulator to allow
>> "#" to be legal within the device name, net name, or param
>> name?
> 
> Those symbols do work in device names and net names.
> 
> There is an issue with param names because of param expressions.  
> Those characters can have meanings of their own in expressions.  
> For example "foo|bar" .. is likely to mean "foo or bar".
> 
> Param expressions are known to have issues.  Fixing it, or even 
> documenting it properly, requires further study.  I think any 
> problems there will come out as testing and debugging of 
> expressions is completed.
> 
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