RE: [Corpora-List] WordSmith

Dear Li-chin, 

I think I might be able to help with question 2.

In Wordsmith, the question mark is used to represent any single character (including punctuation, space, etc) in the search word. This is useful for wildcard searches. E.g., if you search: want??, you'll get the concordance lines for "wanted" ,"wanton", "wants.", "want?" etc.

In order to search for a word followed by a question mark, you'll have to enclose the question mark in double quotation marks. So to generate the concordance lines for want followed by a question mark, you'll need to key in: want"?". This is also true for the following symbols, all of which are used in wildcard searches: *, ?, ==, :\, and /. You can find the details of this in the help files of Wordsmith. Click Help, Contents, Concord, Concordance settings and syntax.

Good luck,
Siew Imm

>From: sara chen <elpxo@yahoo.com>
>To: corpora@hd.uib.no
>Subject: [Corpora-List] WordSmith
>Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:59:34 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm wonder if any WordSmith expert can help me to solve few questions.
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>1) How to avoid producing those strange codes when transferring my original text data into the txt. files, which is recognized by WordSmith? I have copied the origninal text on Notepad and then save it as txt file.
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>2) How to search question mark "?" from my data with WordSmith? I used concorrdance to search them but some strange codes came out.
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>Many thanks
>
>Li-chin
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