You can't grep dead trees.

[B0rsuk]

I finished the basic version of necronomicon file. It contains all common spells of all schools (531), but not national ones. Columns: paths(primary first), spell name, research level, research school, battle/ritual.

I tested it with my spellbook script and with the following command:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>egrep -v '(F|W|A|E|S|D|N|B)* [^ ]* [0-9] (Conjuration|Alteration|Enchantment|Construction|H oly|Thaumaturgy|Evocation|Blood_Magic) (battle|ritual)' necronomicon</pre><hr />

...but it's not a perfect way, I'm afraid. It found two typos (Conuration, Enchantmen) so there could be more. Please report if you find any. It was a very tedious work, and I occasionaly caught myself writing wrong spell levels or battle instead of ritual (or vice versa).

Dust off your regular expression skills and have some fun ! Also check following linux commands: egrep, awk, wc, diff, sort, uniq, cut, cat, and cowsay. The last one is not installed by default.
And don't forget to praise me.

ToDo:
- national spells
- additional columns: number of effects, range, area of effect, duration, underwater/surface/anywhere, spell type, damage, and other boring stuff.

[Evil Dave]

Excellent! Thanks, B0rsuk!

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

I hereby announce to the world that B0rsuk, greatest Hero in the world, slaughterer of the beast, Sorceror of the Necronomicon, is the Prophet of Uh-Nu-Buh.

Good work, my dark jedi.

This will make a lot of people in the mod section happy too, so make sure you post a link to it there as well!!

[UninspiredName]

Are prophets allowed to have such long titles?

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

Mine are. Don't worry, UninspiredName, you can be my next prophet (after B0rsuk gets smashed by one of my numerous enemies on the forum, we'll have to wait a few turns, then I will make the announcement.)

[HoneyBadger]

B0rsuk, to properly honor you, I shall wear the icon you so generously gifted me, just as soon as I get around to equipping it, lazy fat procrastinator that I am.

thank you again!

[tibbs]

I'm a little confused as to the purpose of this. What do I do with it?

[PDF]

It's a plain text file, for us Windoze users I've put it in Excel format, much more practical http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Edi]

Looks good. Since stealing that outright would be bad manners, do I have permission to swipe this for use in the Dom3 DB project if I decide to do spells as well?

Edi

[B0rsuk]

You're allowed to do that, but keep in mind I'll add more columns and spells (national) in future. You may have additional work to do later if you use it now.

[Edi]

That's okay. I might have a bit differing ideas on how to format the thing to best suit the purposes I'm envisioning, so I don't mind. I've got something of a track record of jotting down stuff from Dominions at this point anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Edi

[PhilD]

Er, there's no permission to ask for - at least, not from BOrsuk. It's all taken from Illwinter's work, after all...