Re: Old/broken SGF files.

On 28 Nov 2003 22:47:30 GMT, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>This is going to sound odd, but does anyone have a collection of old,
>preferably broken SGF files? I hear old programs generated some wacky
>SGF. I'd like to see what errors are present in actual SGF files out
>there.
>
>So if anyone has any pointers to broken Go games then let me know.
>
>J.

Old does not mean broken. Old files will have a prior version of the
SGF format, many can be found on rec.games.go (google). Just look for
records from the mid 90's like: 
(
;
GaMe[1]
VieW[]
SiZe[19]
Black[qd]
;
....

If you want to test your SGF-parser on "broken" files, make sure ....
- it handles these FF[2] formats OK
- it signals illegal moves OK (=playing a stone where there is one
already)
- it recovers nicely from characters that should have been escaped
(such as : "\(" in comments) but are not
- it recovers from unwanted line feeds in move nodes: 
B[qd
]


Jan


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