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zookman
6 May 2012, 05:42
What I want to be able to do is 'keyword search' the in game chat logs for a specific conversation I had with an unknown player at an unknown time.
I assume doing this on-the-fly wouldn't be viable, as each WAgame file would require separate processing. I might be wrong.
But if I could somehow batch process all 10k+ of my WAgames, and end up with a searchable chat log document, then I'd be able to find that specific conversation.
Ideas?

GreeN
6 May 2012, 15:47
mass extract the logs and use windows search or find a hex editor that can search for unicode strings

StepS
6 May 2012, 17:59
mass extract the logs
no need. Chat messages themselves are plain text in the replays. Just use Search in contents
unicode
what?

GreeN
6 May 2012, 18:18
what?
text strings, as opposed to hex values

StepS
6 May 2012, 18:48
they aren't in Unicode.

Pac-Man
9 May 2012, 13:07
If the Windows Indexing Service for the Windows Search works correctly (e.g. never?), you can also set up the WAgame extension to be searched in a way which also reads the content of the files - including the chat logs. Then you just have to enter the chat text in the search box when you're in the replays folder.
To set it up like this (Vista / 7 only):
- Start, enter "index" and select "Indexing options" in the search results.
http://pacman.highfsb.com/team17/index001.png
- Click the "Advanced" button in the new window:
http://pacman.highfsb.com/team17/index002.png
- Select the "File Types" tab page in the new window.
- Choose "WAgame" in the file extension list (you can enter WAgame after you have clicked into it), and check the second radio button:
http://pacman.highfsb.com/team17/index003.png
Accept all windows and have a try. Maybe Windows needs some time to index the contents first.

Lex
14 May 2012, 08:15
You could get and use ack (http://betterthangrep.com) for this purpose. You'd have to install Perl 5.8.8 or higher, then install ack. Ack is like grep, but better. Also, there's a supposedly-better tool called Ag (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) (or "The Silver Searcher") which is like ack but uses simple search strings instead of regular expressions, but searches multiple times faster.
Don't expect using these to be newbie-friendly. Both tools only have command line interfaces. However, once installed and working, these tools are very valuable for searching for anything within many files.

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