Author: Jeff White
Date: 23:01:13 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 23:03:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 05, 2004 at 22:44:04, Jeff White wrote: > >>I'm looking for something that will trim down the header information in a pgn >>file. Something like this: >> >>[Event "?"] >>[Site "DSB-2.Kongress"] >>[Date "1881.??.??"] >>[Round "13"] >>[White "Blackburne,J"] >>[Black "Chigorin,M"] >>[Result "1-0"] >>[ECO "D05"] >> >>to something like this: >> >> >>[White "Blackburne,J"] >>[Black "Chigorin,M"] >>[Result "1-0"] >> >>Is there something out there that will do this for me with existing pgn files? >>Doing it with a word processor is very time consuming. Thanks for any help >>provided. > >The above shortening of the header is not allowed by the PGN standard. There >are seven mandatory tags: >Event >Site >Date >Round >White >Black >Result > >If you take out any of these, it is no longer a PGN file. > >That having been said, it would be very simple to write a filter to do what you >want. > >PGN-Extract by David Barnes will strip out lots of stuff, like comments and PGN >tags that are not mandatory. > >Out of curiosity, why do you want to remove that data? I am printing out position cards. What I am doing is taking a pgn file of positions and printing out the fen as a diagram on to 4 x 6 index cards. I am then using the pgn file as the answer and printing it out on the back only instead of printing it out like this: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3. etc I am doing it like this: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.etc, When the entire header is on there it kind of takes up a lot of room, so thats why I wanted to strip the majority of the header off. Hehe! I hope that makes sense. Anyway, thanks for any help you can provide. Regards, Jeff
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