Re^2: File modification on the fly (Verilog)

Thank you so much for your help, I works perfectly. If I understand your script correctly, you are setting the line delimiter to a ";" and replacing all multiple spaces to single spaces? I have parsed the netlist using verilog-perl, but the time requirement seems to increase exponentially with number of cells. For older netlists with ~5k cells, the script takes about 12 hours. With my new netlist of about 450000 cells, I'm estimating a runtime of about 200 days which is unacceptable so I'm looking at alternative approaches.

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Re^3: File modification on the fly (Verilog) by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 03, 2016 at 13:12 UTC
Thank you so much for your help You're welcome. If I understand your script correctly, you are setting the line delimiter to a ";" Yes. and replacing all multiple spaces to single spaces? \s refers to all types of whitespace; refer to perlre. The key here is that \s includes the newline character (\n). So, \s+ replaces multiple adjacent spaces, tabs and newlines. s///g changes all whitespace on a line. For older netlists with ~5k cells, the script takes about 12 hours. That is a surprisingly long time. Can you post your code for that?	[reply]
Re^3: File modification on the fly (Verilog) by $h4X4_\|=73}{ (Monk) on Aug 03, 2016 at 07:46 UTC
Depending on how your program works you can maybe gain some speed from using auto flush `$\| = 1;`. OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH	[reply] [d/l]