On Thursday, 20 April 2017 21:17:31 UTC+5:30, Kiran wrote:
> SKILL Question: Suppose I have a string "dbid:123454", how can I get object (shape or padstack or cline etc) out of it?
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> This will be handy when you have bunch of dbid strings with you but don't know what they are, unless you trace back.
Why did you convert them to strings? I think there is no way to get back the original dbId from the string representation.