+s*

[Leonid Spektor]

William,

	There are a few difference between KWAL and COMBO. If you type KWAL and press return key and then type COMBO and press return key you will see usage information for both commands. Comparing the two will show those differences. But, at the end I guess it is a matter of mostly personal preference and getting what you need.

Leonid.



On Sep 6, 2013, at 16:51 , William Snyder wrote:

> Dear Leonid,
> 
> To be honest I haven't used kwal in years. Combo normally can do
> everything I need (including, of course, combination searches - which
> I use frequently, and which kwal doesn't do, as far as I'm aware).
> 
> So it will be great if you can, indeed, put the " +s* " possibility
> into Combo once more!
> 
> A side note: Out of curiosity, is there a major reason for people to
> continue using Kwal instead of switching over to Combo? (Probably
> there is - but whatever it is, I guess I haven't had a need for it...)
> 
> Many thanks for your help!
> 
> William
> 
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> William,
>> 
>>        This was a hack in an old version of COMBO. COMBO is designed to search for some particular keywords and not for everything, but people wanted to count number of utterances of specific speaker or to be able to extracting only one specific speaker from data set. Those two functions are performed by KWAL and FREQ commands now. To extract a specific speaker from a data set, for example a *CHI speaker, you would use KWAL command:
>> 
>> kwal +t*chi filename.cha
>> 
>> To count number of utterances of a specific speaker, a CHI speaker again, use FREQ command:
>> 
>> freq -y +s*CHI:  filename.cha
>> 
>> Because those two functions would be duplicated by COMBO command, it was decided to not re-implement this hack in newly rewritten COMBO command. But, since there is a demand for it, I will add this function to COMBO again.
>> 
>> 
>> Leonid.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2013, at 17:55 , Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>> 
>>> Leonid would have to answer about whether this is a bug.  But I could at least point out that,
>>> for this purpose, KWAL works fine, as in
>>> 
>>> kwal +t*CHI adam01.cha +fonlyadam
>>> 
>>> --Brian MacW
>>> 
>>> On Sep 5, 2013, at 5:29 PM, William Snyder <william.snyder at uconn.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello. Today I installed CLAN on a new PC, and found that the switch
>>>> +s* no longer works with COMBO the way it used to.
>>>> 
>>>> For example, suppose I issue the following command:
>>>> 
>>>>   combo +tCHI +s* adam01.cha > only_adam.txt
>>>> 
>>>> In the past, this would have created a file containing all and only
>>>> Adam's utterances.
>>>> 
>>>> Now it produces the message:
>>>> 
>>>>  Strings matched 0 times
>>>> 
>>>> Is this a bug, or is there a new syntax for COMBO commands?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> William
>>>> 
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