KWAL Excel output

[Carol Miller]

Thanks so much, Leonid! We will try it and report back.
Carol

On Monday, April 6, 2026 at 4:15:32 PM UTC-4 Leonid Spektor wrote:

> Hi Carol,
>
> I was finally able to look at KWAL and you were absolutely right there was 
> a 35 keywords limit. KWAL was designed for literal finite keywords 
> specified with +s option. When you added the wildcard (*) character to +s 
> option, as in "*@z:se*", you created a potential infinite number of 
> keywords. No surprise the 35 keywords limit was easily exceeded. I have 
> increased the keyword limit to 10000 hopefully this will be enough for what 
> you are doing. I also hope your computer has enough memory to run this 
> command.
>
> New CLAN is on the web.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Mar 30, 2026, at 12:50, Carol Miller <cam4... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> An example command is 
> "kwal +d4 +s"*@z:se*" +t*CHI *.cha +r5"
> BTW, we are collaborating with Tracy Preza and the command is based on the 
> one she worked out with you in her post of July 25, 2024.
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
> On Friday, March 27, 2026 at 4:28:07 PM UTC-4 Leonid Spektor wrote:
>
>> What KWAL option are you using? Please provide an example of your command 
>> line.
>>
>>
>> Leonid~
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2026, at 16:20, Carol Miller <cam4... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> Hello,
>> We are running a KWAL search on a set of over 1000 transcripts. The 
>> resulting Excel sheet generates columns for keywords from the search. That 
>> is, strings identified by the KWAL command from the search appear in 
>> columns, each on a row with the corresponding line from the transcript. The 
>> keyword columns stop at column AV. The transcript lines appear in column 
>> AW. Some transcript lines retrieved by the search do not have 
>> corresponding keyword columns.
>>
>> Are we coming up against a limit on the number of columns CLAN will 
>> output to an Excel file? This seems likely, because we have run KWAL a 
>> few times, generating different numbers of results in column AW, but in 
>> each case the keywords only populate through column AV. I just want to 
>> confirm whether my hypothesis is correct. 
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Carol
>>
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