Batch editing participant IDs

[Elnaz Kia]

Hi Brian,

You are right. Using regular expressions in other editors is much easier
and more controlled. Thanks for the great advice!

Best,
Elnaz

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

*Post-Doctoral Research Associate
<https://l2trec.utah.edu/about/staff-directory.php>*

Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
<https://l2trec.utah.edu/>

University of Utah

LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/elnaz-kia?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3B%2FResGVF2SMGMAxhocdPnRw%3D%3D>

Personal Website <https://elnazkia.weebly.com/>



On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 6:48 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> These changes seem okay.  I use regex expression changes in BBEdit instead
> of relying on CHSTRING for things like this, because it gives you fuller
> control. Similar options are Atom, Sublime Text and so on.
>
> — Brian
>
> > On Aug 11, 2021, at 8:17 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Leonid,
> >
> > I have one more question about my recent inquiry. Per Brian's and your
> advice, I am in the process of changing the participant IDs and making
> other necessary revisions. In order to change the transcriptions from form
> A to form B (see below), I created the following commands. I couldn't find
> a more dignified path. :-)
> > Form A
> > @Begin
> > @Languages: fra
> > @Participants: F0001 IDf0001 Student
> > @ID: fra|corpus|F0001|0;00.00|male|||Student|||
> > @Media: f0001c05ri4_1, audio
> > @Transcriber: Matteo Fiorini
> > @Comment: euh signals hesitation
> > @Situation: Introductions
> > *F0001: je m' appelle (..) NAME NAME (.) euh (.) .
> > *F0001: NAME c' est mon dernier nom [:: nom de famille] .
> > *F0001: et ça vienne <de> [/] de Allemagne parce que mon maman <et> [/]
> et
> > mon papa est Allemagne [:: allemands] .
> > *F0001: <et alors je> [//] euh (.) alors mon dernier nom
> > [:: nom de famille] NAME est Allemagne [:: allemand] .
> > @End
> >
> > Form B
> > @Begin
> > @Languages: fra
> > @Participants: STU IDf0001 Student
> > @ID: fra|mussel|STU|0;00.00|male|||Student||IDf0001|
> > @Media: f0001c05ri4_1, audio
> > @Transcriber: Matteo Fiorini
> > @Comment: euh signals hesitation
> > @Situation: Introductions
> > *STU: je m' appelle (..) NAME NAME (.) euh (.) .
> > *STU: NAME c' est mon dernier nom [:: nom de famille] .
> > *STU: et ça vienne <de> [/] de Allemagne parce que mon maman <et> [/] et
> > mon papa est Allemagne [:: allemands] .
> > *STU: <et alors je> [//] euh (.) alors mon dernier nom
> > [:: nom de famille] NAME est Allemagne [:: allemand] .
> > @End
> >
> > 1. To change the participant ID in the main lines in chat & text files
> (applies to all languages):
> > chstring +re +w +t* +l +s"\**:" "\*STU:" *.cha
> > ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha
> >
> > chstring +re +w +y +s"\**:" "\*STU:" *.txt
> > ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt
> >
> > 2. To change the corpus name and the next field in line @ID in chat &
> text files (applies to all languages):
> > chstring +re +w +t@ +s"|corpus|*|" "|mussel|STU|" *.cha
> > ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha
> >
> > chstring +re +w +y +s"|corpus|*|" "|mussel|STU|" *.txt
> > ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt
> >
> > 3. To change the optional speaker name (last field) in line @ID
> > *Note: These commands has to be run separately for each folder, since
> the ID changes in each folder.
> > chstring +re +w +t@ +s"|Student|||" "|Student||IDc0002|" *.cha
> > ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha
> >
> > chstring +re +w +y +s"|Student|||" "|Student||IDc0002|" *.txt
> > ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt
> >
> > 4. To change the 1st field in line @Participant
> > *Note: These commands have to be run separately for each folder, since
> the ID changes in each folder.
> > Tried this command and a few others, no chance!
> > chstring +w +d +s"F0010 IDf0010 Student" "STU IDf0010 Student" *.cha
> >
> > Questions:
> > a) how can I achieve the last change (4)?
> > b) I am using batch to run the commands in 1 and 2 (highlighted in
> yellow). Is it possible to create the search strings for 3 and 4 in a way
> that it is not dependent on specific IDs so I could run all the commands in
> batch for all the directories and subdirectories instead of running them on
> individual folders?
> >
> > I am so sorry for asking so many questions. I spend hours digging in the
> manuals and playing with the commands before asking you. :-(
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help!
> > Elnaz
> >
> >
> > Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
> > Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> > Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> > University of Utah
> > LinkedIn
> > Personal Website
> >
> >
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "chibolts" group.
> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
> an email to chibolts+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> > To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chibolts/CAOwOJY%3Df6JUMXRFvKkshZ609pnWUq1tNHRsQbX_VKm8q7WxNuw%40mail.gmail.com
> .
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "chibolts" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to chibolts+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chibolts/AB2BBD34-2F3C-43A9-89AF-2C1E9F27C383%40andrew.cmu.edu
> .
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "chibolts" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chibolts+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chibolts/CAOwOJYkgKFt4CnrOM%3DWKm5o_7TZq4nD1UEzMCvKDNz4tej86JQ%40mail.gmail.com.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/chibolts/attachments/20210811/dae6db6b/attachment.htm>