RE: [Bug-gnubg] Import of .gam files

[Ian Shaw]

From: Jonathan Kinsey on 14 June 2006 09:00
> 
> I think they produce .mat files now - at least they did when 
> I tried it recently (if it was the same site...).
> 
Only matches produce .mat files. 

Single games produce .gam files.

Gnubg fails to import these because:

A) Gnubg expects the line
n point match

Where n is the match lenth and "0" is a money game.

It ought to be be possible to assume 0 if this line is not found.

B) Gnubg expects the player names to be punctuated:

Player0 : points        Player1 : points

The game format only has:

Player0                 Player1

The routine searches for the : and fails.

I think the solution would be to look for a big bunch of White space if the 
search for a : fails, and to assume the score is 0 - 0.

C) GE ends each gaem file with the text
        Wins 1 point and the match

The import works fine if you strip " and the match", so it should be fairly 
simple to ignore it.

I had a look at fixing it. It was too hard for me, but I would guess fairly 
trivial to a C programmer.

Maybe the correct approach is to set default data at the start of the routine, 
e.g. names are Player0 and Player1, the score is 0 - 0 in a money game.

-- Ian