Nicknames Messed up

Qrusher14242 · 04-13-2003, 05:20 PM

Anyone know anyway to fix the nicknames when you import from lahman? I cant use Cato's Utility cause of the messed up names.

doubles · 04-13-2003, 05:27 PM

Its because the nicknames are too long

Just edit them.

Qrusher14242 · 04-13-2003, 05:31 PM

damn ok, theres tons of nicknames that are messed up

tcblcommish · 04-13-2003, 09:51 PM

what I do with mine before putting it into the Cato util is run the Exporter util and then open the PLAYERS.CSV file and look through the nickname part to find the messed up players.

Then edit them in the game and copy the new files to the TEMP dir and run the Exporter again.

Works like a charm

Qrusher14242 · 04-14-2003, 12:19 AM

What causes some of your errors in Cato's utility? I sometimes get errors in my Teams.csv file and cant find any wierd characters.

TLBOrioles · 04-14-2003, 09:59 AM

To fix the Cato bugs, open the questionable file in Wordpad and search for quotation marks that are doubled, or any non-ASCII characters. They'll look like squares. Delete the squares and make sure the quotes are in the proper pattern. Usually Cato's util will even tell you what line the issue is on.

I think if you have the Lahman DB there's no reason you couldn't open the CSV file in Excel and make it truncate all the nicknames to a certain length. The errors I've had have come 99% of the time when the nickname is over 12 characters.

Qrusher14242 · 04-14-2003, 02:24 PM

Ok, thx

04-13-2003, 05:20 PM	#1
Qrusher14242 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA Posts: 1,253	Nicknames Messed up Anyone know anyway to fix the nicknames when you import from lahman? I cant use Cato's Utility cause of the messed up names.

04-13-2003, 05:27 PM	#2
doubles Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 480	Its because the nicknames are too long Just edit them.

04-13-2003, 05:31 PM	#3
Qrusher14242 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA Posts: 1,253	damn ok, theres tons of nicknames that are messed up

04-13-2003, 09:51 PM	#4
tcblcommish Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 3,439	what I do with mine before putting it into the Cato util is run the Exporter util and then open the PLAYERS.CSV file and look through the nickname part to find the messed up players. Then edit them in the game and copy the new files to the TEMP dir and run the Exporter again. Works like a charm

04-14-2003, 12:19 AM	#5
Qrusher14242 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA Posts: 1,253	What causes some of your errors in Cato's utility? I sometimes get errors in my Teams.csv file and cant find any wierd characters.

04-14-2003, 09:59 AM	#6
TLBOrioles Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 188	To fix the Cato bugs, open the questionable file in Wordpad and search for quotation marks that are doubled, or any non-ASCII characters. They'll look like squares. Delete the squares and make sure the quotes are in the proper pattern. Usually Cato's util will even tell you what line the issue is on. I think if you have the Lahman DB there's no reason you couldn't open the CSV file in Excel and make it truncate all the nicknames to a certain length. The errors I've had have come 99% of the time when the nickname is over 12 characters.

04-14-2003, 02:24 PM	#7
Qrusher14242 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA Posts: 1,253	Ok, thx