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Subject: Re: PGN Cleaning utility

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 15:31:44 02/09/03

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On February 09, 2003 at 17:42:42, Dan Wulff wrote:

>Hi There!
>
>Where can I find an utility that can clean up a PGN file, and remove all
>comments from it ?? I would prefer a command line utility, but almost anything
>will do. I tried importing the PGN file into Chess Assistant 6.1, but CA chokes
>on some of the games, and cuts them off at odd positions, and sometimes gets the
>header information messed up too. I cannot see what the problem might be, so I
>would like to try cleaning it up.
>
>Any suggestions ??

The obvious one is extract, a command line utility, which can be found at

ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-utils/extract/.

Another option could be Scid IIRC. Wether it can handle files that the
professionals cannot, I don't know.

Regards,
Mogens



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