quotation mark replacement with pcreReplace?

Hi,

I am trying to get outputs from ocean using  outputs() function into a list from a post layout simulation(netlist is dspf file). The format of outputs() is sth like this: /VCO/VCO_CORE/CAPBANK[0]/MMN0:G

To be able to plot these with ocean, I need to convert them to below format:

v("VCO.VCO_CORE\\/CAPBANK\\[0\\]\\/MMN0\\:G)

In other words, I need to use double escape character before "/ [ ] : " characters. We can assume VCO section is common for all saved nets so /VCO/ => VCO. is not much an issue. Also I was able to change [ ] : and / with pcreCompile and pcreReplace but I couldn't figure out how to add quotation mark after v(

To add double backslach before : [ ]/ , I have below

comPat2 = pcreCompile("[:/\\[\\]]")

pcreReplace(comPat1 "/VCO/VCO_CORE/CAPBANK[0]/MMN0:G" "\\\\&" 0)

The question is how I can replace quotation mark in pcreReplace such that /VCO/ becomes v("VCO?

Thanks

yayla

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