paulg Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 What is the format of the file used to exclude specific players from a tournament? I assume it is either a comma-separated list of users or one user per line? Can I add comments to the file? I'd like to put additional information into the file like the date that a user was added so that I can remove them after a while. Thanks Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dodgy Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 guessing somewhat... It's one name per line, alphabetised. e.g.jillybeanmrdodgymrsdodgyI'd expect comments would ruin the 'test' of whether a player attempting to register was on the list. If you have "MrDodgy tosspot 28/9/06", and I tried to register, the software would probably reason that "MrDodgy"<>"MrDodgy tosspot 28/9/06", and I'd be in. There may be a character you could insert to overcome this; "MrDodgy*tosspot" could work if the software knows not to look after the * I have a spreadsheet with IDs, dates, comments. Edit, sort, and copy the ID column into a text editor. Note: Excel sorts badly - purely numerical IDs are regarded as being 'before' IDs which contain other characters so it gives me951123_kafkaf3505bb cosgunb_88_reimrdodgywhen it should be05b951123b cosgunb_88_rei_kafkaf35mrdodgyI think. I'm a bit confused about the underscores, and other 'special' characters...can a BBO'er set me straight? Note the names used in this post are NOT from any form of blacklist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJNeill Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 Hi all,I asked uday before and he said it's one name per line, no matter what characters or whitespace. No amount of tabs or commas will break a line into two names. I don't know about commenting a file, but I doubt it. Thanks,Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 1 username per lineno stray spaces in each linedoes not matter if file is ordered You can use the friends/enemy button inside your profile to build lists limit about 1000 names or so. If you need more, yell (not here!) . Currently the only way to get more than that is to use a priv club and i dont have many of those left at this moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jikl Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 When you say no stray spaces, does that mean it takes the first word or if there is a space it ignores the line? Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 it means that we try to perform an exact (but case insensitive) match between the line and the username in question. So John Doe all by itself on a line is fine. John Doewill not find a match (real usernames can't start with a space) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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