removing media codes in CLAN output

[Leonid Spektor]

 Sarah,

	Use +d4 option with kwal. For example: kwal +t%mor +d4 *.cha. The output does not include age, though.

Leonid.





On Jun 11, 2010, at 16:10, Sarah Kresh wrote:

> Dear Leonid,
> 
> That worked perfectly! Thank-you!
> 
> Since you just save me hours of work, I thought maybe I'd lay out my
> project and see if there is a better way to do it.
> 
> I want to wind up with an excel sheet with the following columns:
> 
> filename   age    line#    utterance tier     %mor tier
> 
> I already know how to use the kwal command with switches to extract
> the utterances I need with the %mor  tier (child's verb-containing
> utterances), but I haven't figured out a way to import it into excel
> without then having to do a lot of rearranging of data.
> 
> Forgive me if I've posed this question before; I am having a deja vu,
> but I can't find the discussion on this topic.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sarah
> 
> 
> On Jun 11, 2:36 pm, Leonid Spektor <spek... at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>  Sarah,
>> 
>>         We are providing file "bullets.cut" with every distribution of CLAN for just this purpose. This file is located in CLAN/lib/fixes folder. You can use this command, if you "lib" button in commands window is set correctly, to remove bullets from data files:
>> 
>> chstring +cbullets.cut *.cha
>> 
>> The manual, I am afraid, is a bit out of date. The name of the file has changed from "rem_bullets.cut" to "bullets.cut"
>> 
>> Leonid.
>> 
>> On Jun 11, 2010, at 12:47, Sarah Kresh wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>> 
>>> I have tried to remove media codes using both the chstring
>>> instructions ("chstring +s"_*_" "" sample.cha"), which produces :
>> 
>>> From file <ana02a.cha> to file <ana02a.str.cex>
>>> 750
>>> **- NO changes made in this file
>>> Done with file <ana02a.str.cex>
>> 
>>> and the bullet.cut command in the manual ("chstring +crem_bullets.cut
>>> t.cha") which outputs:
>> 
>>> chstring +crem_bullets.cut ana02a.cha
>>> Can't open either one of the changes files:
>>>    "rem_bullets.cut", "C:\CHILDES\CLAN\lib\fixes\rem_bullets.cut"
>> 
>>> I have copied the bullet.cut file into the working directory, and I
>>> can see the bullets in the .cha file.
>> 
>>> I must be missing something.
>> 
>>> Thanks for any help on this, or any tips for a simple way to remove
>>> the codes in Excel (the bullets don't appear as characters I can find
>>> and replace for some reason.)
>> 
>>> Sarah
>> 
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