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Subject: Re: New Chess Database - Curly Brace (Crafty Analysis)

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 10:12:47 10/16/03

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Peter,

Thanks for the information.  I'm glad you looked into it.

Jose is really a pretty nice interface.  I still haven't tried the hook into
MySQL but I am looking forward to it.  Do you have any feel for whether it would
work with Oracle?  If you're just making a connection and then running standard
SQL I think there is a chance.

Steve

On October 16, 2003 at 12:21:36, Peter Schäfer wrote:

>>The problem is with the curly brace, "{...}" embedded in the variations. e.g.
>>({11:+0.86}  6. ... Bb4 7. c4 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Nf6 9. Qb3 Qe7 $16).  I don't know if
>>the curly brace is supported by the PGN Standard or not.
>
>No, the problem is the blank character between the periods:
>
>  6. ...
>
>The PGN spec says:
>
>  A move number indication is composed of one or more adjacent digits
>  (an integer token) followed by zero or more periods.
>
>which does (interpreted strictly) not allow blanks. However, I will make
>jose's parser more tolerant.
>
>-- Peter



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