From f9eb75f55d26d19e548e875ff20ffbacd9a536f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Vogt <holger.vogt@uni-due.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:12:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] skip comment lines

---
 src/frontend/subckt.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/frontend/subckt.c b/src/frontend/subckt.c
index 8cf3a4e9e..07c541d92 100644
--- a/src/frontend/subckt.c
+++ b/src/frontend/subckt.c
@@ -243,8 +243,11 @@ inp_subcktexpand(struct card *deck) {
             if (ciprefix(".subckt", c->line))
                 nupa_scan(c);
         /* now copy instances */
-        for (c = deck; c; c = c->nextcard)  /* first Numparam pass */
+        for (c = deck; c; c = c->nextcard) {  /* first Numparam pass */
+            if (*(c->line) == '*')
+                continue;
             c->line = nupa_copy(c);
+        }
 
 #ifdef TRACE
         fprintf(stderr, "Numparams transformed deck:\n");