Illegal characters when running CHECK

[G.W. Bol]

Dear Linda,

It looks like you have to delete the space after the letters you 
mentioned. Did you try that?
Best,
Gerard Bol.

On 29-3-2012 14:46, Linda Mortensen wrote:
> Dear list members,
> I am running the CHECK command on a series of chat files. I have 
> corrected all the syntax errors in the files, except for one type of 
> error that I don't know what to do about. Below I have pasted an 
> output from the CHECK command that contains this error type. As you 
> will see, specific letter are considered to be illegal characters. In 
> the example, these are the letters "y" in "boy", "g" in "big", and "d" 
> in "kind". In other chat files, other letters are considered illegal. 
> Does anyone know how I correct these illegal characters? Any 
> suggestions are much appreciated!
> Thanks
> Linda
>
>
> > check +g3 01_DK2C.S.cha
> Language codes file being used: "C:\childes\clan\lib\fixes\ISO-639.cut"
> Dep-file being used: "C:\childes\clan\lib\depfile.cut"
> check +g3 01_DK2C.S.cha
> Tue Mar 27 15:16:22 2012
> check (23-Jan-2012) is conducting analyses on:
>   ALL speaker tiers
>     and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers
>   and ALL header tiers
> ****************************************
> From file <01_DK2C.S.cha>
> *** File "01_DK2C.S.cha": line 22.
> *AST:    I think they went to the eh toy    department first eh were 
> they eh.
> Illegal character(s) 'y' found after Tier name.(123)
> *** File "01_DK2C.S.cha": line 24.
> *AST:    I think they made a big    mess and eh ended up with ah eh 
> all kind
> Illegal character(s) 'g' found after Tier name.(123)
> *** File "01_DK2C.S.cha": line 38.
> *AST:    you could see they w- there were birds and rabbits and all 
> kind    of
> Illegal character(s) 'd' found after Tier name.(123)
>
> Warning: BASIC SYNTAX ERROR - Second pass not attempted !
> Warning: Please repeat CHECK until no error messages are reported!
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