Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 16:42:55 09/04/04
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On September 04, 2004 at 18:52:05, Uri Blass wrote:
>I think that I understand what is going on and ReadPgn may return 2 and the
>descreption of it in Crafty's code was wrong.
>
>Here are the comments that were misleading
>
>* this routine reads a move from a PGN file to build an opening book or for *
>* annotating. It returns a 1 if a header is read, it returns a 0 if a move *
>* is read, and returns a -1 on end of file. It counts lines and this *
>* counter can be accessed by calling this function with a non-zero second *
>* formal parameter.
>
>The question is still what readpgn does and if there is a code that is more easy
>to understand about reading pgn(I do not like to try to do the same
>deterministic task of reading data from pgn by myself and I hope to have some
>functions that can help).
>
>Uri
Consider looking at GNU's book reading code for PGN files at
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html
This suggestion has absolutely *NO* competitive intent.
It is purely shared.
Stuart
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