[pigna]

Hi,
I'm using the utility of PyFoam pyFoamClearEmptyBoundaries to delete some unused patch in my mesh and i get this error:

PyFoam.RunDictionary.ParsedParameterFile.PyFoamPar serError: Error in PyFoamParser: 'Syntax error in file /home/marco/OpenFOAM/marco-2.4.x/snappy_explicit/constant/polyMesh/boundary at token' @ ';' (Type: ; ) in line 586 at position 13265

around line 586 i have

porous_grain76
{
type wall;
inGroups 1(wall); //586
nFaces 0;
startFace 1588300;
}

The strange fact is that i have already used pyFoamClearEmptyBoundaries for a coarser mesh obtained in the same way of this one and it worked properly, but now this error. I think it is a kind of bug.
If someone knows how to fix this problem.

Thanks

[peppino]

late reply... but maybe can be useful to someone else.
i run in the same error when running pyFoamCreateBoundaryPatches and i noticed that removing the inGroups line from the boundary file solves the issue.
(the groups will be removed too)

[-luk-]

I can confirm the behaviour. I have removed all "inGroups" lines from the boundary file and pyFoam worded. You can use sed to remove the lines:

sed '/inGroups/d' constant/polyMesh/boundary > constant/polyMesh/boundary_nogroups

Regards, Luk