[Anarchdb-devel] Database population

[Andrew P Vanpernis]

I placed two text files into the the cards directory of ARDB's CVS
repository.

One is the the complete (minus Anarchs) card list from the White Wolf
webpage. Unfortunately this file lacks any sort of rarity information.
The second is a complete (minus Anarchs) list of rarities that can be
found at http://www.thelasombra.com/cardlists.htm. 

The problem seems to be combining the information in these files and
organizing them into a CSV file. I was just trying to think of some
ideas for how to do this, and what the output should look like. Do we
want multiple listings for a card within a given set. For example, with
the card Academic Hunting Ground do we want?

Academic Hunting Ground, Jyhad, Uncommon, ...
Academic Hunting Ground, VtES, Uncommon, ...
Academic Hunting Ground, Camarilla, Preconstructed Tremere, ...
Academic Hunting Ground, Camarilla, Uncommon, ...

Or this?

Academic Hunting Ground, Jyhad, Uncommon, ...
Academic Hunting Ground, VtES, Uncommon, ...
Academic Hunting Ground, Camarilla, Preconstructed Tremere | Uncommon,
...

Another question is should all of the fields be spelled out (like I did
above), or should we come up with a set of abbreviations, similar to
those used in the text files?


-- 
Andrew Pieter Van Pernis, Clemson University Computer Science Dept.

"Bargain not with darkness, for in time it shall take us all."
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