Formatting Lists of Objects - 2023.1 English

When a list is returned from the get_* commands, the list is un-formatted and returned to stdout in a single line delimited by a space. This is shown in the following example:

get_cells
A B clk_IBUF_inst rst_IBUF_inst din0_IBUF_inst din1_IBUF_inst dout0_OBUF_inst 
dout1_OBUF_inst dout2_OBUF_inst dout3_OBUF_inst clk_IBUF_BUFG_inst

This un-formatted return makes it difficult to see what has been returned in the Tcl Console and the Vivado IDE. To have each item in the list returned on a separate line, simply execute the command nested in a join command, with the newline character, '\n', as follows:

join [get_cells] \n
A
B
clk_IBUF_inst
rst_IBUF_inst
din0_IBUF_inst
din1_IBUF_inst
dout0_OBUF_inst
dout1_OBUF_inst
dout2_OBUF_inst
dout3_OBUF_inst
clk_IBUF_BUFG_inst

The list returned by the get_* command is unaffected by the join command.