Quotation marks in stimulus .txt file

[David McFarlane]

Justine,

I am having a bit of trouble following this.  Do you mean that
- you have text in an Excel file
- the text in the Excel file does not contain any quotation marks
- you convert the Excel file to a .txt file (how do you do that?)
- the resulting .txt file now has quotation marks around some (all?) 
of the text
- you use the .txt file as input to an EP List (using Load Method "File")
- and now (some? all?) the text stimuli are enclosed in quotation marks?

Please clarify.

BTW, if you use EP2.0.10.x or later, a List can load from an Excel 
file directly, no need to convert it to .txt first.

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At 2/12/2013 02:27 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a .txt ffile that I am loading stimuli from in an E-Prime 
>experiment. The stimuli consist of sentences (text). During 
>experimental presentation, randomly, quotation marks appear around 
>certain words that are not present on the Excel file from which I 
>have created the .txt. I assume this is something to do with saving 
>in the tab-delimited format, and I wondered whether anyone has a solution.
>
>If I simply delete the quotations from the .txt file, then I am 
>concerned that I will mess up the tab-structure.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Justine VanDyke
>Postdoctoral Research Assistant
>Language Processing Lab
>Institute for Mind and Brain
>University of South Carolina

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