chstring

[Diane Pesco]

Dear Anna,
I tried what you were after but haven't been able to do it using a 
changes.cut file.  I only succeeded by giving the following command on line:
chstring +x +s"*@s" "*@sv" filename +1
It seems the asterisk is necessary to find the @s and the +x recognizes 
the asterisk.  The +1 replaces your original file with the new corrected 
one, I prefer that than generated a whole new set of files but I guess 
you shouldn't use it before trying on a few samples.   You could always 
run this on a group of files simultaneously by replacing filename with 
*.cha or whatever. I tested it, it works.  Nothing I tried with 
changes.cut works, I think it might be because of the asterisk that 
seems necessary to find these word internal strings you are looking for.
Best of luck.
Diane Pesco
Anna Gudmundson wrote:

> Dear Brian et al.
>
> I'm trying to replace all occurences of  "@s" to "@sv", but I can't 
> make it work.  We have used the sign @s to indicate code switching 
> from itaian to swedish in our transcriptions, but now we would like to 
> change it to @sv. There are several similar changes that need to be 
> made so I really would like to know what I'm doing wrong. This is what 
> it looks like:
>
> *ANN: c'è tanto di più di questa # närhet at s.
>
> I would like to change @s into @sv to make the utterance look like:
>
> *ANN: c'è tanto di più di questa # närhet at sv.
>
> I have created a file named 'changes.cut' and it looks like:
>
> "@s " "@sv "
>
> with no spaces before the @-signs.
>
> and then i run the command:
>
> chstring +c "filename"
>
> but no changes are being made. If I instead create a 'changes.cut' 
> file that looks like:
>
> " tanto "  " tantoo "
>
> and run the same command as above, the changes are being made.
>
> I thought chstring would work on parts of words like @s, and not only 
> on complete words. I've also tried "_*@s " "_*@sv ", but it doesn't 
> work. What am I doing wrong??
>
> Many thanks in advande
>
> Anna Gudmundson
> Stockholm university


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Diane Pesco
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
dpesco2 at po-box.mcgill.ca
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