Oh, and don't get me wrong. The logging system could be made much better. Making a character that surrounds data fields and CANNOT be placed into any field supplied by a user (name mainly). It would make the whole process a lot less painful (believe me I spent a lot of time trying to break my own parsing code).
Ideally you would have player info as a unique format. As it is now is fine, but you'd want to lock out quotes as a usable character. You could then have something like: EVENTCODE,NUMPLAYERS,PLAYER1,PLAYER2......,event specific args (as many as you'd expect). So perhaps the above example of mine might be: ATTACK,2,"player1<21><STEAM_0:1:345><TERRORIST>","player2<23><STEAM_0:1:5432><CT>","weapon=deagle","damage=18","damage_armor=3","health=82","armor=97" But, at the end of the day - we can't expect the format to be changed by valve overnight (or even ever) so.. You just have to work your best at writing a parser that does the best it can and sometimes has to discard attempts at forgery. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
