Quotation marks in stimulus .txt file

[Justine VanDyke]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. To clarify:

-yes, I have text in an Excel file.

-yes, randomly quotation marks occur around certain words (not present in
the Excel file).

-this occurs when I 'Save As' a .txt file.

-yes, I am 'loading' a file using Load Method "File".

-yes, certain words (meaning 'some') have quotations.

Apologies that that wasn't clear.

I solved the problem by copying and pasting from Excel into a .txt file;
however, it's good to know that this is not necessary and that I can load
directly from Excel.

Many thanks.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:

> Justine,
>
> I am having a bit of trouble following this.  Do you mean that
> - you have text in an Excel file
> - the text in the Excel file does not contain any quotation marks
> - you convert the Excel file to a .txt file (how do you do that?)
> - the resulting .txt file now has quotation marks around some (all?) of
> the text
> - you use the .txt file as input to an EP List (using Load Method "File")
> - and now (some? all?) the text stimuli are enclosed in quotation marks?
>
> Please clarify.
>
> BTW, if you use EP2.0.10.x or later, a List can load from an Excel file
> directly, no need to convert it to .txt first.
>
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> At 2/12/2013 02:27 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a .txt ffile that I am loading stimuli from in an E-Prime
>> experiment. The stimuli consist of sentences (text). During experimental
>> presentation, randomly, quotation marks appear around certain words that
>> are not present on the Excel file from which I have created the .txt. I
>> assume this is something to do with saving in the tab-delimited format, and
>> I wondered whether anyone has a solution.
>>
>> If I simply delete the quotations from the .txt file, then I am concerned
>> that I will mess up the tab-structure.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justine VanDyke
>> Postdoctoral Research Assistant
>> Language Processing Lab
>> Institute for Mind and Brain
>> University of South Carolina
>>
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