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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnucap mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnucap > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-hash-symbol-%28-%29-in-a-variable-tp24539897p24554125.html Sent from the Gnucap - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Help-gnucap mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnucap
