Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sep 5, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
>
>> Yes, the gschem file format is much less accessible for
>> hand/awk/sed-editing than the pcb file format.  
>
> Huh? gschem format is *trivial* to parse in awk. Use rules like:
>
> $1==L {
> 	x1 = $2
> 	y1 = $3
> 	...

But the meat is in the following lines, those things I'd want to mangle.  

> Or for simple things just skip the symbolic names. XML is much harder.

Oh yes, XML is horrible.  

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