<html><div style='background-color:'><P class=RTE>Dear Li-chin, </P>
<P class=RTE>I think I might be able to help with question 2.</P>
<P class=RTE>In Wordsmith, the question mark is used to represent any single character (including punctuation, space, etc) in the search word. This is useful for wildcard searches. E.g., if you search: want??, you'll get the concordance lines for "wanted" ,"wanton", "wants.", "want?" etc. </P>
<P class=RTE>In order to search for a word followed by a question mark, you'll have to enclose the question mark in double quotation marks. So to generate the concordance lines for <EM>want</EM> followed by a question mark, you'll need to key in: want"?". This is also true for the following symbols, all of which are used in wildcard searches: *, ?, ==, :\, and /. You can find the details of this in the help files of Wordsmith. Click Help, Contents, Concord, Concordance settings and syntax.</P>
<P class=RTE>Good luck,<BR>Siew Imm</P>
<P class=RTE><BR><BR>>From: sara chen <elpxo@yahoo.com><BR>>To: corpora@hd.uib.no<BR>>Subject: [Corpora-List] WordSmith<BR>>Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:59:34 -0700 (PDT)<BR>><BR>>Hi everyone,<BR>><BR>>I'm wonder if any WordSmith expert can help me to solve few questions.<BR>><BR>>1) How to avoid producing those strange codes when transferring my original text data into the txt. files, which is recognized by WordSmith? I have copied the origninal text on Notepad and then save it as txt file.<BR>><BR>>2) How to search question mark "?" from my data with WordSmith? I used concorrdance to search them but some strange codes came out.<BR>><BR>>Many thanks<BR>><BR>>Li-chin<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>---------------------------------<BR>>Do You Yahoo!?<BR>> Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources
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