Agreed, Cadence bus syntax can be much more complex than
this. However splitting on commas and parsing the contents
in '<>' doesn't allow me to identify unique field types.

Eg.
XI0<15:0> HD_DEC0_B<(7:0)*2> HD_DEC1_B<15:0:2*2> <*2>H<3:0>,<*4>P<1:0>

Because this is an cadence array'd instance, the expansion
of each field type is different so I need a way to
identify this.

HD_DEC0_B<(7:0)*2> --> field_type1
HD_DEC1_B<15:0:2*2> --> field_type2
<*2>H<3:0>,<*4>P<1:0> --> field_type3

There are many more different field_types that I need to be able to identify, the above is just an example.
What this line expands to is:

XI0_15 HD_DEC0_B_7 HD_DEC1_B_15 H_3
XI0_14 HD_DEC0_B_6 HD_DEC1_B_15 H_2
XI0_13 HD_DEC0_B_5 HD_DEC1_B_13 H_1
XI0_12 HD_DEC0_B_4 HD_DEC1_B_13 H_0
XI0_11 HD_DEC0_B_3 HD_DEC1_B_11 H_3
XI0_10 HD_DEC0_B_2 HD_DEC1_B_11 H_2
XI0_9 HD_DEC0_B_1 HD_DEC1_B_9 H_1
XI0_8 HD_DEC0_B_0 HD_DEC1_B_9 H_0
XI0_7 HD_DEC0_B_7 HD_DEC1_B_7 P_1
XI0_6 HD_DEC0_B_6 HD_DEC1_B_7 P_0
XI0_5 HD_DEC0_B_5 HD_DEC1_B_5 P_1
XI0_4 HD_DEC0_B_4 HD_DEC1_B_5 P_0
XI0_3 HD_DEC0_B_3 HD_DEC1_B_3 P_1
XI0_2 HD_DEC0_B_2 HD_DEC1_B_3 P_0
XI0_1 HD_DEC0_B_1 HD_DEC1_B_1 P_1
XI0_0 HD_DEC0_B_0 HD_DEC1_B_1 P_0

For field_type3, I already have a routine that will explode this type and populate an array.
However I'd like to have a regular expression that will match
all variations of field_type3 but not match my
other field_types.

Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: regular expression help by pip9ball
in thread regular expression help by pip9ball

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