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Originally posted by sabotai
primelord, how do you go about figuring out the structure of these files? It seems like several people on this board have the ability to figure out the structure of the log files, draft files, etc. I was wondering how you did it.
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The format of the log files is a lot easier to figure out than the format of the draft files and some of the other file formats some of the guys here have cracked. They have to hex edit those files to vigure out the values.
For the log files it's pretty easy. They are just plain text files, but Jim uses symbols thoughout the file that mean different things. For example a -- in the file means the previous play resulted in a first down. A ! is a change of possesion. A * means the beginning of an offensive series for the away team and a $ means the beginning of an offensive series for the home team. Things like that. You just kind of read through the log and you start to get a sense of what those symbols stand for.