Subj : FTN nodelist parser
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 07 2017 05:54 pm

 Re: FTN nodelist parser
 By: Nightfox to All on Sun Aug 06 2017 07:04 pm

> I have been working on some JavaScript code that can parse a FTN nodelist,
> in the form of a function that takes a nodelist filename and returns an
> array containing zone objects (each zone object would have information about
> the zone, and include an array of nodes on the zone and an array of regions,
> which in turn would contain an array of nets, which in turn contains an
> array of nodes.  Once parsed into that data structure, I'm thinking that
> could be used in a JavaScript script for doing things like zone, region,
> net, and node lookups, FTN sysop lookups, etc..  Do any other Synchronet
> sysops think this might be useful?  I've seen other sysops occasionally ask
> about FTN nodelist parsing/searching for Synchronet, but it's not something
> that has been discussed a whole lot.

Deuce has a parse_nodelist() function in exec/load/fido.js. Might want to take
a look at it.

                                           digital man

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