Just putting up a note - i handled a nasty bug today. Probably it's not easy to hit, because the features involved - batch stripping of comments and variations - are fairly destructive and not used much/at-all on big databases, but on pgn files.
Symptom is, on some nasty "names" , batch stripping will leave the namebase / database broken, needing a command line fix with scidt -N. Technically - the bug is caused by our (inherited) abuse of the pgn parser to strip comments and variations. so, say a name like "Kramnik,V" (- no space) will be changed (when reparsed) to "Kramnik, V. *But* we weren't flushing the namebase file, so if you close the base without doing a save/flush, the namebase would be broke. Anyway, we now (in subversion) do a flush with each batch strip, so the problem is "fixed", cough. Except that nasty names will still be changed .- another example of which is having embedded quotes in the name (eg [Event "It "Investbanka""]) I found this bug while writing the Strip notation(s) feature.... which *doesn't* overload the parser, but is a bit of a hack at the moment :) though we'll see how it goes. cheers, S.A _______________________________________________ Scidvspc-users mailing list Scidvspc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users
