CHSTRING

Leonid Spektor spektor at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Jun 11 14:45:57 UTC 2009


Annabelle,

    Try this command:

chstring +s"teddy_bear" "teddy+bear" file.cha

Instead of space character use '_' character this tell chstring to match any
one character including space and newline.

Leonid.


On 11-06-09 06:14, "Annabelle David" <annabelle.david at ncl.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> I am hoping someone can help me. I have been changing a number of
> words using the chstring command. I am mostly turning words that were
> originally transcribed as two items into one compound with the + sign
> in between. So for example, teddy bear becomes teddy+bear. However,
> chstring does not seem to work when the words are on separate line.
> For example:
> *MOT: do you want to play with your doll or your teddy
> bear today?
> 
> So I am left with a lot of cases to change manually. Is there a switch
> I could use to avoid the manual changes? I have tried several but with
> no success.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Annabelle
> 
> > 
> 



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