Hi,<br><br>Thanks for your reply. To clarify:<br><br>-yes, I have text in an Excel file. <br><br>-yes, randomly quotation marks occur around certain words (not present in the Excel file).<br><br>-this occurs when I 'Save As' a .txt file. <br>
<br>-yes, I am 'loading' a file using Load Method "File".<br><br>-yes, certain words (meaning 'some') have quotations. <br><br>Apologies that that wasn't clear. <br><br>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.<br>
<br>Many thanks. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David McFarlane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcfarla9@msu.edu" target="_blank">mcfarla9@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Justine,<br>
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I am having a bit of trouble following this. Do you mean that<br>
- you have text in an Excel file<br>
- the text in the Excel file does not contain any quotation marks<br>
- you convert the Excel file to a .txt file (how do you do that?)<br>
- the resulting .txt file now has quotation marks around some (all?) of the text<br>
- you use the .txt file as input to an EP List (using Load Method "File")<br>
- and now (some? all?) the text stimuli are enclosed in quotation marks?<br>
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Please clarify.<br>
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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.<br>
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At 2/12/2013 02:27 PM Tuesday, you wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
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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.<br>
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If I simply delete the quotations from the .txt file, then I am concerned that I will mess up the tab-structure.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Justine VanDyke<br>
Postdoctoral Research Assistant<br>
Language Processing Lab<br>
Institute for Mind and Brain<br>
University of South Carolina<br>
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