1 files changed, 1 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/main/scala/firrtl/annotations/AnnotationUtils.scala b/src/main/scala/firrtl/annotations/AnnotationUtils.scala
index ba9220f7..517cea26 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/firrtl/annotations/AnnotationUtils.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/firrtl/annotations/AnnotationUtils.scala
@@ -64,29 +64,13 @@ object AnnotationUtils {
     case Array(c, m, x) => ComponentName(x, ModuleName(m, CircuitName(c)))
   }
 
-  /** Converts a serialized FIRRTL component into a sequence of target tokens
-    * @param s
-    * @return
-    */
-  def toSubComponents(s: String): Seq[TargetToken] = {
-    import TargetToken._
-    def exp2subcomp(e: ir.Expression): Seq[TargetToken] = e match {
-      case ir.Reference(name, _)      => Seq(Ref(name))
-      case ir.SubField(expr, name, _) => exp2subcomp(expr) :+ Field(name)
-      case ir.SubIndex(expr, idx, _)  => exp2subcomp(expr) :+ Index(idx)
-      case ir.SubAccess(expr, idx, _) => Utils.throwInternalError(s"For string $s, cannot convert a subaccess $e into a Target")
-    }
-    exp2subcomp(toExp(s))
-  }
-
-
   /** Given a serialized component/subcomponent reference, subindex, subaccess,
    *  or subfield, return the corresponding IR expression.
    *  E.g. "foo.bar" becomes SubField(Reference("foo", UnknownType), "bar", UnknownType)
    */
   def toExp(s: String): Expression = {
     def parse(tokens: Seq[String]): Expression = {
-      val DecPattern = """(\d+)""".r
+      val DecPattern = """([1-9]\d*)""".r
       def findClose(tokens: Seq[String], index: Int, nOpen: Int): Seq[String] = {
         if(index >= tokens.size) {
           Utils.error("Cannot find closing bracket ]")