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Subject: Excellent!

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 10:37:06 03/07/04

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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.


excellent  solution !


there is still a place for DOS in the windows world....



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