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Last Login: 3/9/2007 2:33:33 PM
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Hello-
We have been successful in programming basic questionnaires into E-Prime before. We are currently using E-Studio version 1.2.1.89 and E-Prime version 1.2.1.844. However, when we go to run certain inventories that have been programmed, we can successfully generate scripts, but then we get an error that says "Filename contains an invalid Attribute in QuestionList."
We do indeed have a list object in our program that is set up to pull our questionnaire material from a specific .txt file. Attributes weight, nested, and procedure in the question list object match up identically to the same attributes in our text file. In addition, we have ensured that there are no "extra" attributes (such as excess spaces or tabs) in our text file. We use a "file" load method, too.
This is the strangest of problems as it isn't even consistent with all of our questionnaires! All of our other questionnaires have been programmed in the same exact fashion, yet only some of them run successfully (because of this aforementioned error that shows up). We would sincerely appreciate ANY help with or insight into our problem.
Thanks!
Best,
Pam Carton
Research Analyst
Vanderbilt University
615.343.5452
pamela.n.carton@vanderbilt.edu
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Last Login: 8/12/2008 5:34:55 PM
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Hi,
I've seen the message you're talking about, only mine was caused by an errant tab at the end of the heading row in the file. I don't know for sure that E-prime would react the same way to a character encoding issue, but it would make sense if it did. Have you ever edited those files in Windows Notepad? Non-printable characters (e.g. tab, new line, line feed) in files can actually be stored differently yet still appear exactly the same in a text editor capable of detecting and using multiple encoding schemes. What program and operating system were the files created with/on?
Terry
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