Pathfinder Creature Parser - Alpha release

So the parser went through the new season "Rise of the Goblin Guild" fairly well, ( I thought) but everything from Tactics on down didnt populate (Tactics, Statistics, feats, etc)

Any idea what Im missing here? Somewhat related...cant I just unlock and edit - doesnt seem to let me do that either. HEre's an example of what I parsed

Ekkie L CR 2
XP 1
Female goblin expert 4 (Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 156)
NE Small humanoid (goblinoid)
Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +6
DEFENSE
AC 17, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+3 armor, +3 Dex, +1 size)
hp 22 (4d8+4)
Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +3
OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee masterwork dogslicer +4 (1d4+1/19–20)
TACTICS
During Combat Ekkie attempts to flee, continuing the chase, using Acrobatics to avoid attacks of opportunity from nearby PCs.
Morale Ekkie surrenders if someone successfully pins her, if she is reduced to 12 hit points or fewer, or if a PC blocks her escape by getting to the Nightsoil Alley square before her.
STATISTICS
Str 12, Dex 16, Con 10, Int 9, Wis 8, Cha 9
Base Atk +3; CMB +5; CMD 16
Feats Agile Maneuvers, Weapon Finesse
Skills Acrobatics +10, Disable Device +10, Escape Artist +10, Linguistics +4, Perception +6, Ride +7, Sleight of Hand +8, Stealth +16
Languages Common, Goblin, Varisian
Combat Gear necklace of fireballs type II (with two 2d6 spheres remaining), potion of cure light wounds; Other Gear masterwork studded leather, masterwork dogslicer, wayfinder, backpack, cage-brother’s skull, horse meat rations from the Mariska Knackery (3 days’ worth), masterwork thieves’ tools

It worked fine for me - I copy/pasted the text you included in the post above and ran it through the parser - check you're using V1.0.0.15.

What text editor are you using?

Also, you can't unlock statblocks within a module (as it's read only), you need to drag it to an NPC slot and then you can edit it there.

Thats the one Im using....but I did need to uninstall the prior version....maybe that didnt go so clean...I used the MS uninstaller and immediately reinstalled....any issues with doing that?

Also...saving as ANSI text in Microsoft notepad.

Both of the installation method (it's only a single executable that is installed on top of all the .NET stuff, so as long as you see the version it's OK) and the notepad are fine.

During parsing there is an intermediate file created - with the .fpf extension (it will be the same name as your text file, but with .fpf). Have a look in that file (open it in notepad), it is basically the sections that the parser has stripped out of your text file - it may help to show the section where the issue is occurring.

Also, make sure you only have blank lines between creature statblocks - not in the the middle of them.

Theres definitely something wrong with the formatting...but Im not seeing it in notepad. The fpf file shows it being cut off from tactics on down. Ill keep playing with it, but if someone cared to take a look, here are the zipped fpf, text and mod files created.

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Originally Posted by Talen

Theres definitely something wrong with the formatting...but Im not seeing it in notepad. The fpf file shows it being cut off from tactics on down. Ill keep playing with it, but if someone cared to take a look, here are the zipped fpf, text and mod files created.

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Its the "space" character on the end of "TACTICS " that is causing the issue. I thought I'd coded to remove all trailing spaces - but obviously not tactics (the other main headings work OK).

A quick way to remove them is to use Notepad++, select all of the text, and then Edit -> Blank Operations -> Trim Trailing Space.

I'll update the next release to ignore trailing spaces.

Out of interest, what PDF reader are you copying the text from? I've just downloaded the scenario and copy/paste for me from Adobe Reader X doesn't get the spaces.

Hmm.. it definitely is screwing up right there. I ran through the file as well and in the log it seems to be having trouble finding the TACTICS header even though it is clearly there.

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8/18/2012 11:37:09 AM: FormatDataFile: Written Melee line as: masterwork dogslicer +4 (1d4+1/19-20)
8/18/2012 11:37:09 AM: FormatDataFile: End of Offense section - sOffenseText =
8/18/2012 11:37:09 AM: FormatDataFile: The title of the next section to parse should be in sCurrentLine = TACTICS
8/18/2012 11:37:09 AM: FormatDataFile: Should be at Staistics line - Calling GetAndFormatLine "Statistics" to step to next line.
8/18/2012 11:37:09 AM: FormatDataFile: Calling GetAndFormatLine "XXXXXXXX" to retrieve al remaining data for this creature.
8/18/2012 11:37:09 AM: FormatDataFile: Remaining data to parse = STATISTICS Str 12, Dex 16, Con 10, Int 9, Wis 8, Cha 9 Base Atk +3; CMB +5; CMD 16 Feats Agile Maneuvers, Weapon Finesse Skills Acrobatics +10, Disable Device +10, Escape Artist +10, Linguistics +4, Perception +6, Ride +7, Sleight of Hand +8, Stealth +16 Languages Common, Goblin, Varisian Combat Gear necklace of fireballs type II (with two 2d6 spheres remaining), potion of cure light wounds; Other Gear masterwork studded leather, masterwork dogslicer, wayfinder, backpack, cage-brother's skull, horse meat rations from the Mariska Knackery (3 days' worth), masterwork thieves'

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That did the trick (using notepad++ toeliminate the trailers)! Thank you for taking the time to walk me through - as always your help is invaluable in making these games run as well as they do.

I had the genius idea of cutting from Adobe Reader 9 into MS Word 2007 and then pasting into notepad. I had *thought* that would make spotting formatting issues easier. Little off on that assessment.

Add thank you Blackfoot as well!

No problem - glad to help.

I've started looking into parsing directly out of the PDF - not just creatures but story entries, images, etc. However, my first investigations show that this will be very, very hard (if not next to impossible). I need to be able to identify different formats used within the PDF to try to identify what each type of text is. This may never be 100% accurate (or, require a config file be created for each scenario)... This won't be available anytime soon (if ever). So, keep doing what you're doing...