Edat to txt conversion?

[David Hairston]

Unfortunately the .txt files created are an "archive" of that same .eDat
file that is created on-line during the experiment... this is done so
that you can recover the data in event of early termination. It is a
somewhat funky file format, and difficult to make sense of - you have to
use the E-prime Data recovery tool to convert them in E-Data files. Ugh.


W. David Hairston
Neurobiology and Anatomy
 
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
(336) 716-4481 (lab)
http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/XMODAL/

-----Original Message-----
From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Fuller
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:32 PM
To: Mike Lawrence; eprime at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: Re: Edat to txt conversion?

>Hi there,
>
>I just recieved a large data set (288 files) from a
>researcher who uses Eprime. I don't have eprime so of course
>I cannot read the edat format files.  Is there a tool
>somewhere that allows for batch conversion of edat files to
>simple txt files?

I'm still quite the amateur with E-Prime, but our experiments 
export a flat .TXT file in addition to the .EDAT file.  I 
don't know if this is a setting that is standard, but if it 
is, perhaps your colleague could send those instead?

-- 
Doug Fuller
dfuller at wayne.edu
Research Assistant, Wayne State University
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences