<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Virginia,<div> Your exclude.txt file needs to have a VERY simple format. Just one word on each line.</div><div>Probably, you have something more complicated. </div><div><br></div><div>Basically the error message you received is telling you that some of your words have</div><div>spaces. For example, this exclude file will give an error</div><div><br></div><div>dog</div><div>cat</div><div>pig cow</div><div><br></div><div>--Brian</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 3, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Virginia Tompkins <<a href="mailto:vltompkins@gmail.com">vltompkins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<br><br>I am trying to exclude a list of words from my transcripts using a command and word list that I have previously used successfully, but I'm now having trouble getting it to work. The command I am using is:<br><br>freq +t*CHI +r6 -<a href="mailto:s@exclude.txt">s@exclude.txt</a> filename.cha<br><br>and the message I receive is:<br><br>Multi-words are not allowed with option: -s<br> Multi-words are search patterns with space character(s) in-between.<br> If you did not mean to have space characters in-between words,<br> then please remove space characters and try again.<br><br>What does this mean? <br><br>Thanks,<br>Virginia <br><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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