Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Frost <indigo@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I would point out a valid YAML representation of the above is also:
>
> {pin: {pinNumber: 2, pinName: rst, x1: 1234, y1: 4321, x2: 2345, y2: 4321, layer: component}}

> Neither sed nor awk can process XML or YAML the right way in all cases
> without reimplementing a libyaml or libxml in sed or awk.

This one-line form is pretty accessible to sed and awk.

I'd write an awk script that transforms arbitrary YAML into this form,
and include that in any commandline pipe of one-liner processing.  At
the next save from PCB it will be back to the original format, so that
subversion diff will happy. I like that format.

-- 
Stephan



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