retrosheet is a Rust crate for parsing event data from [Retrosheet], a baseball statistics aggregator. Currently, it
only supports parsing the .EVX files that store a sequence of metadata and play-by-play data.
Using retrosheet is fairly straightforward, and most information can be gleaned by looking at the [documentation] or
at Retrosheet's [event file specification], although the latter is somewhat incomplete.
To use the parser, provide the byte-data of one or more games (e.g. from reading an EVX file) and use the parse
method on the parser. This will return a vector of Game objects which store a variety of data, described in the
[documentation]. For example:
rust
let buf: Vec<u8>; // some buffer which may have been read into by a file
let mut parser = Parser::new();
match parser.parse(&buf) {
Ok(ref games) => {
for game in games {
// Do something with the game here
}
},
Err(ref e) => {
panic!("Oh no! An error occurred: {}", e);
}
}