<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Janet,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yes, the second "<font color="#0433ff">chstring -w +s"&+~" "&~" +s"&+=" "&=" +s"&+-" "&-" *.cha</font>" command would fix the <font color="#0433ff">&=</font> option. The CHSTRING option <font color="#ff2600">+s"&+=" "&="</font> will do just that fix. The one thing you need to worry about is the file names. The first command does work on the *.cha file, but it will create output *.chstr.cex files. So, the second command will need an input file to be *.chstr.cex.<div><br><div>You can streamline the process if you backup your data files first. Then you can make the CHSTRING changes on the copy *.cha data files. In this case use following commands:</div><div><br></div><div>1st: <font color="#ff2600">chstring -w +s"&" "&+" +1 *.cha</font></div><div><br></div><div>2nd: <font color="#ff2600">chstring -w +s"&+~" "&~" +s"&+=" "&=" +s"&+-" "&-" +1 *.cha</font><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 3, 2025, at 16:09, 'Janet Bang' via chibolts <chibolts@googlegroups.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Leonid, <div><br></div><div>Thanks! I was worried about using chstring because we also used the "&=" for simple events, but so would the second chstring command address that issue?</div><div><br><div>I'll also test this out a few files, rather than doing this to the whole corpus at once and let you know if I have any questions. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Janet</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM Leonid Spektor <<a href="mailto:spektor@andrew.cmu.edu">spektor@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi Janet,<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Sorry for delay in reply. I remember that we had to do the same thing for our data and I vaguely remember we had a command to do it for many files at the time. But, unfortunately I cannot seem to find that command anywhere.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>One suggestion I have to use BBEdit editor. It has a good Grep function which will help identify the right "&" symbols.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You can also do it in two passes. First, use the following command to replace all '&' symbols with '&+':</div><div><br></div><div>chstring -w +s"&" "&+" *.cha</div><div><br></div><div>Next use CHSTRING command to replace mistakes that the first command might have created. For example,</div><div><br></div><div>chstring -w +s"&+~" "&~" +s"&+=" "&=" +s"&+-" "&-" *.cha</div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 2, 2025, at 18:21, 'Janet Bang' via chibolts <<a href="mailto:chibolts@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">chibolts@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>Hello, <br><br>I am preparing transcripts to contribute to CHILDES, and at the time of transcription we were using the "&" symbol for phonological fragments. <div><br></div><div>Is there a code that we could use to automatically replace these to the "&+"? This was coming up as an error when using CHECK, and I was hoping to clear these to identify any other issues before contributing. <br><br>Thank you!<br>Janet</div><div><br></div>
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