The previous picture shows an example in which the user wants to import the fields Name, Rating,
Title, Country, Birthday, ID code and Gender (the corresponding check boxes are pressed). Then for
each field the user inserts the column from which begin to read that field (the first column of the
record start from 0). The length of each field is fixed by VEGA and specified in Max Length.
The selected filter can be saved for reuse using Save Filter and the filter’s filename should have a
.flt extension. It can be reloaded later with Load Filter.
The CSV database works with databases in which the fields are delimited by ‘;’. One needs to
define a filter and indicate the fields to be imported. The first field has position 0 (zero). This type
of database can be used to import from FIDE or national databases as well as custom-built
databases.
Note: In English speaking countries CSV type databases are usually delimited by ‘,’ instead of
‘;’. This default behavior can be altered on Windows machines by going to Control Panel →
Region and Language Settings → Additional Settings → List Separator and changing the ‘,’ to
a ‘;’. Programs such as Excel will then delimit fields with ‘;’ as required.
The database type Vega and VegaFSI (Italy) are the easiest in that they don’t need a filter and
contain both FIDE and national data. In particular, the first one is the native format of Vega’s
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