Posts by kevlaar (Page 1)

IMO, this is ideal. It's easy to read, easy to generate, and easy to type. Pipes ("|") are probably the best delimiter, because other potential characters (commas, dashes, etc) are contained in some card names.
The only way that this could be improved would be to continue to allow inputting cards in the current format, and provide the option to specify additional information. For example, working from Trickster's suggestion, allow users to submit like this:
3 island
1 lightning bolt
or like this:
3|Alpha|Island|mint
1|Magic 2010|Lightning Bolt||english|foil|promo
In the latter format, any fields that are empty are simply not set when importing. (Eg: Lightning Bolt above doesn't have its condition set.)

Combining their suggestions and ordering to allow the [edition] field to be dropped if not desired:

3|Abbey Griffin|INN
15|Forest|INN
32|Forest|NPH

Full list of 3-char abreviations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ma … ering_sets

An added bonus would be the ability to do mass import with all the fields allowed of a single card:

[Qty]|[Card Name]|[edition abrv]|[Quality]|[Lang]|[Properties]

From right to left, 1, 2, 3, or 4 fields could be optional:

[Qty]|[Card Name]|[edition abrv]|[Quality]|[Lang]|[Properties]
[Qty]|[Card Name]|[edition abrv]|[Quality]|[Lang]
[Qty]|[Card Name]|[edition abrv]|[Quality]
[Qty]|[Card Name]|[edition abrv]
[Qty]|[Card Name]

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