Quotation marks in stimulus .txt file

[Justine VanDyke]

Nitpick away, Michiel.

I appreciate the additional information and advice.

Thanks!

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Cognitology <mspape at cognitology.eu> wrote:

> Hi,****
>
> Just to nitpick and maybe future help: ****
>
> **·         **Excel-files do not store ascii. I suspect you mean you
> exported from Excel to tab-delimited text file (as you actually say a bit
> later on). This is important because it probably means that something in
> the conversion went awry. ****
>
> **·         **The quotation marks are quite unlikely to appear random
> unless you run Office for Quantum Computer. A quotation mark can appear if
> a number in excel, stored in a “general format” cell, is to be treated as
> text: I.e. 128 is a number, ‘128 are three letters. The trick is to
> accurately set the cell format, or:****
>
> **·         **Open .txt (or whatever the file is) in notepad, hit
> CONTROL+H, enter replace [‘] to [] (i.e. one quotation mark to nothing),
> save. Sounds dumb, but I love doing it this way, same goes for converting
> stuff to SPSS. This should not mess up the columns.****
>
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>
> Best,****
>
> Michiel****
>
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> *From:* e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Justine VanDyke
> *Sent:* 12. February 2013 23:08
> *To:* e-prime at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: Quotation marks in stimulus .txt file****
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> ** **
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your reply. To clarify:
>
> -yes, I have text in an Excel file.
>
> -yes, randomly quotation marks occur around certain words (not present in
> the Excel file).
>
> -this occurs when I 'Save As' a .txt file.
>
> -yes, I am 'loading' a file using Load Method "File".
>
> -yes, certain words (meaning 'some') have quotations.
>
> Apologies that that wasn't clear.
>
> I solved the problem by copying and pasting from Excel into a .txt file;
> however, it's good to know that this is not necessary and that I can load
> directly from Excel.
>
> Many thanks. ****
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
> ****
>
> 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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