read attributes from file

[Tony Zuccolotto]

Katerina,

I think you need to just make sure there are two tabs generated back to
back.   I just tried this by creating the cells (first row with
Attribute names on it) and leaving the cell blank for Nested using
Excel.   I did a Save As... from Excel and saved it as tab delimited
text.  I ran with E-Prime and it worked.   Perhaps that's not the true
cause of the error you are seeing.  Are you sure the exact number of
attributes (and their names) are the same between the spreadsheet and
the List that you are trying to load them into?   nothing scrolled off
to one side of the List that you didn't see?  any hidden columns that
are causing miss matches (Weight, Procedure, Nested)?

Hope that helps.

Tony

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katerina Avramides [mailto:katerina at andrew.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:44 AM
> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: read attributes from file
> 
> 
> I'm using a text (tab delimited) excel file, but an error 
> comes up that 
> there is an invalid attribute when reading the file (error: 
> -999). I think 
> the problem is the value for the nested attribute - I don't 
> know what value 
> I should assign (leaving it blank doesn't seem to work).
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Katerina
> 
> 
> 
>