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Subject: Re: PGN to FEN

Author: F. Huber

Date: 07:47:14 03/07/04

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On March 07, 2004 at 09:53:23, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On March 07, 2004 at 00:19:25, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2004 at 22:28:08, Jeff White wrote:
>>
>>>I have a file of positions in pgn format, 1154 of them to be exact. Here is an
>>>example of one:
>>>
>>>[Event "Combination Challenge!"]
>>>[Site "?"]
>>>[Date "1992.??.??"]
>>>[Round "?"]
>>>[White "01"]
>>>[Black "?"]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>[SetUp "1"]
>>>[FEN "3rn1k1/p4ppp/1p4b1/2p1Q3/2P1P3/P4P2/1B1qBP1P/1R5K w - - 0 1"]
>>>[PlyCount "0"]
>>>[EventDate "1991.??.??"]
>>>[SourceDate "2002.08.06"]
>>>
>>>What I want to do is just have the fen line without everything else. I tried the
>>>program pgn2fen without success. I don't want to have to edit out everything
>>>except the fen line with a word processor. Basically I want 1154 fen lines. How
>>>do I go about doing this? Any help anyone can provide is greatly appreciated.
>>>Thanks very much.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Jeff
>>
>>
>>If you are running windows, open a dos box, cd to the directory where your file
>>is, and type:
>>find "[FEN" myfile.pgn >fen.txt
>>where myfile.pgn is the name of the pgn file. This should put just the fen lines
>>in fen.txt. Load this file in a word processor, do 2 replace all to get rid of
>>the [FEN " and the "] save it as text and you should have it.
>
>Some people just won't give up that DOS stuff!  : )
>
>Bob D.

And as you see at the simple (DOS) solution above:
"They are wise to NOT give up this good old DOS stuff!" ;-)

Franz.



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