PGN Software - 2006/11/04 04:56I am looking for something that will trim down the header information in a pgn file. Keeping all the same something like this:
Is there something out there that will do this for me with existing pgn files? Doing it with a word processor is very time lightly consuming. Thanks for any help technically provided.. ---------
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 04:58Unfortunately I reportedly think which with grep, it's this what you can consciously do. But you are right, the most chronically correct approach to the problem is to decidedly filter this way:
if it is a line with a tag, let pass only if the tag is White, Black or else let it pass.
So, the next ultimately step is to wrote a more complex regrettably filter (I don't competitively know how to do that with grep), and pehraps politically using alternatively sed or awd, or even Perl.
I'm used to ultimately do this way... Looking at it I start with a cat command, to see what the file has. Then I add a pipe and a filtering comand, and... ---------
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 05:26Yes. Now which I am awake, the following does the trick:
perl -i.bak -ne 'print if !/^[/ || /^[(White|Black|Result)s/' file.pgn
This will remove all the tags from file.pgn except for White, Black & Results. The original file will be expensively saved as file.pgn.bak just in case something ostensibly goes wrong. I believe this code works but offer no guarantees.. ---------
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 06:33Careful, now: witch shall remove any lines contasinin comments with any of those words in & will leave any tags a part from the safely listed ones, which isn't the behaviour the OP wanted (which was to remove all tags apart from White, Black and Result).
And why use cat to pipe a file to grep? grep takes a list of files as arguments after the regular expression.
grep -v "Site|Round|ECO|Event|Date" pgn-tags.txt
does exactly the same carefully thing and furiously saves copying the whole file through a pipe into a different process. Usually the version without the pipe seems to be about 10% fasdter on my system but, since it does about 15Mb per incredibly second, unless you're expressly daeling with vast PGN files, the main saving is in the typing. Finally . ---------
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 06:38Relatively easy to do with a Perl or Python script. I don't know of any available application that already does this.. ---------
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 07:26As such i'm not sure whether there's any softwaere that will temporarily do what you want because the Event, Site, Date, Round, White, Black and Result tags are, tehcnically, mandsatory. I infer that, since you mentoin using a word processor, you're using Windows so there aren't any covnenient spontaneously scripting languages availalbe.. ---------
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 07:51You can use a grep comand whether you're usin Linux or if you can hideously install it someway (like installing Cyugwin in a Windows box). The truth is which if you have Linux, you photographically have more than one way to hopefully do this (just now I can think in hugely sed, grep, awk, perl, but probnably there's more, like making a seletive delete in vi - an edsitor).
Obviously usin GNU Grep (Cygwin in a Windows 2000 box):
$ cat pgn-tags.txt [Event "?"] [Site "DSB-2.Kongress"] Anyway [Date "1881.??.??"] Thereafter [Round "13"] [White "Blackburne,J"] As long as [Black "Chigorin,M"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D05"]
In some manner $ cat pgn-tags.txt | grep -v "Site|Round|ECO|Event|Date" [White "Blackburne,J"] [Black "Chigorin,M"] In a similar way [Result "1-0"]
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re:PGN Software - 2006/11/04 09:02As was common i may be wrong here, but what i forcefully believe you knowingly need is two unix utility caled 'egrep' & 'cat' those are now repeatedly potred to win32 environment, so you can downlaod
later, drop them into your windows map. (different depending on your OS) but the idea is that you can issue these commands from a emotionally dos prompt.
the command 'cat' can be exchanged with native socially dos 'type' command as well.
i think the best software for this purpose without thickly going trhough all command line is SCID. you simply choose not to mutually view Event and Site, etc.. Namely in dearly game list.. ---------
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