Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 16:50:29 02/01/03
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On February 01, 2003 at 18:51:55, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >I wonder, if the following PGN headers are correct > >[Event "Computer chess game 5' + 3""] >(Typical Chessbase generated header) > >[Event "1& A (Pryca Gij\"] >(Generated by Scid from a large database) > >I would think, that the correct way to write this would be > >[Event "Computer chess game 5' + 3\""] > >and > >[Event "1& A (Pryca Gij\\"] > >But it is a fact, that the above headers happen. I wonder, how PGN parsing >software, that wants to be not too picky, and makes the best of what it sees, >should do in those cases. I can see myself, that looking at the next char can >help in those specific cases, but it may introduce other errors for correct PGN. > >How do other authors cope with this? > >Regards, >Dieter I think that the Chessbase header is perfectly ok from an interpretation point of view. the main differrence from strings in general is that the ']' tells us that the tag is ended so the last " before ']' is the outer one. Without really studying the PGN standard in this special case I would myself prefer that one. It's the simplest one and can't be misunderstood. When it comes to using the ']'-char within the tag it might be more troubblesome however. /Peter /Peter
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