Illegal characters when running CHECK

[Brian MacWhinney]

I'll bet that the problem is that the illegal characters are actually tabs. CHAT wants tabs to be in only one place at the beginning of
lines after the colon.

-- Brian MacWhinney

On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:33 AM, G.W. Bol wrote:

> 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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