[paulg]

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

[Mr. Dodgy]

guessing somewhat...

It's one name per line, alphabetised. e.g.

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jillybean
mrdodgy
mrsdodgy

I'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 me

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951123
_kafkaf35
05b
b cosgun
b_88_rei
mrdodgy

when it should be

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05b
951123
b cosgun
b_88_rei
_kafkaf35
mrdodgy

I 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.

[DJNeill]

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

[uday]

1 username per line
no stray spaces in each line
does 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

[jikl]

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

[uday]

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 Doe
will not find a match (real usernames can't start with a space)