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Subject: Re: Quotation mark in PGN headers

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 11:52:55 02/02/03

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Hi Dieter,

i extract the header info between the first and the last " - character.

In steps i do the following:
1. delete all beginning and ending space characters
2. delete the first [ - character and the last ] - character
3. extract and delete the keyword (for excample: event)
4. delete again all beginning and ending space characters
5. delete the first and last " - character
6. delete finally all beginning and ending space characters
-> now i have the header info

Andreas


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



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