extract player names and/or map name from crossfire replay files

[loggfreak]

i am trying to write a program which can read/show player names from the replay files

i know i can see the names by opening the CFR file in Notepad++ but i'd like to automate
the extracting of the player names from the replay files

i'm currently programming in vb.net for the people who'd like to know

does annyone know a way for a program to recognize the player names?

map names would also be cool

[Biesi]

Try to search all text strings in the file

[bandi12]

Load the whole flie into a char array.
make another char array where you store the character's (A to Z) number (0-9) and other simbol's what can be found in a name like -,* ......

Then loop trough the first char array and mach every array from the .cfr whit your array then if you found a match save it in a string or char array and check the next one if the next one is a mach to then save that to check next uptil there is no more mach = the name is over , so you have one name . delete the string/char array where you saved the name and start from begin again uptil you find again a mach ....

[loggfreak]

thanks for your quick reply biesi and bandi

does annyone know what characters are supported as In Game Name?

does annyone know the minimal and maximal length for a character's name???

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oh yeah btw (off topic but yeah) does annyone know why the site was down 5-10 minutes ago??

[Biesi]

max length is 12 chars and allowed are .][*-_ a-z 0-9 and sometimes ?

[loggfreak]

lol just found out the minimum name length is 1
i found someone named A
thanks biesi

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damn it's still hard to do
names are never on the same location in file
some other random letters show up as names after filtering
and i can't find a pattern in the files

[loggfreak]

Someone got a more effective way to extract names/data from cfr files??
does annyone know how to get the map name??

[needhash]

Guaranteed but at the same time hardest way to accomplish what you want is to partially reverse engineer the exe. Unfortunately I don't sure that I can do that because of low skills. Btw using approach suggested by bandi12 it's possible to grab unnecessary chars and even words. Also it's not good to load the whole file in memory (use functions from WinApi or C lib). Why do you want to have such program?

[bandi12]

Guaranteed but at the same time hardest way to accomplish what you want is to partially reverse engineer the exe. Unfortunately I don't sure that I can do that because of low skills. Btw using approach suggested by bandi12 it's possible to grab unnecessary chars and even words. Also it's not good to load the whole file in memory (use functions from WinApi or C lib). Why do you want to have such program?

I don't have time for a program like this bk it's ussles for me , but that replay file could be filtered 90-95% then just manualy filter the missed non name char's.