What is "rrestyp"

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In the blw file, there is the parameter/tag “rrestyp”. What is its meaning and is there any significance to ‘0’ vs ‘4’ as the value.

Thanks,

Tom Owen

Dahlgren Yact Club

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Hi Tom

I assume you are looking at the raw data in the Sailwave .blw. This is the result type. Whether it’s a place or code or timed result

Jon

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Jon, thanks for the reply. i have developed a Java application to manage our PHRF fleet Sailwave blw’s with Huw’s wind-indexed ratings across multiple aliased competitors in multiple divisions. Each requires separate starts, so my app creates all of the starts from the data in a user form and adds the new race with starts. I was revising the documentation, and did not understand the significance since Sailwave changes the default value ‘0’ to other ones based on race scoring type. Sailwave never complained about the default ‘0’ for any new races. My app also manages the aliased competitors by adding any missing ones. That also will solve the issues we have merging 3 low points into a single season high points. The aliased competitors would always be corrupt w we had to manually create the aliased competitors for the extra divisions. Now we can just merge to non-aliased and the app will create the proper aliases and duplicate race parameters greatly reducing inducted errors.

Thanks again for your support to make everything work.

Tom