string input with spaces

[David McFarlane]

Matt,

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That said, here is my take...

In your .edat files, take a look at your .RESP value strings, and 
compare those to the strings in your Correct attribute.  Does the 
subject's RESP have a "{SPACE}" wherever they entered a space 
character?  Then your Correct attribute has to do the same.  Please 
see the "{key} nomenclature" topic in the online E-Basic 
Help.  Alternatively, you could add inline code to replace the {key} 
nomenclature with proper text, as in the example provided by PST's 
own Matt Lenhart at 
http://www.pstnet.com/forum/Topic2194-5-1.aspx  (must register & 
login to download).

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 4/14/2011 10:39 AM Thursday, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have trouble with a problem solving experiment a student in a class
>I'm TAing put together.  Rebus puzzles (e.g. 
>http://preview.tinyurl.com/3s73mwj)
>are being used as the task.  The answers to these puzzles are short
>idioms or sayings (e.g. "a cut above the rest").
>
>The script has a slide which presents the puzzle stimulus (picture
>file) and echoes input from the keyboard.  Problem is, when the answer
>held in  our [CorrectAnswer] attribute is a string that contains
>spaces, we either get an error message "Correct is not part of
>allowable," or the script fails to recognize that a correct answer has
>been provided.  I've mucked around with various settings of allowable
>input in the Duration/Input and Echo submenus of the SlideObject, and
>am having trouble remembering which mapped to which.
>
>I think the problem is somewhere in how the input is being parsed and
>compared to the value held in the list attribute [CorrectAnswer].  Our
>current workaround is to omit spaces from all responses, but it seems
>like the fix should be fairly simple (whatever it is).  Am happy to
>send a copy of the experiment on request.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>-Matt

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