recording when a line is started in multiline textbox

thv — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:18:50 GMT

Hello,
I am having participants enter responses into a textbox on an openended trial. I set multiline as true, and would like to be able to tell when the participant pressed 'enter' to start a new line.
Right now the responses come out as if they just pressed space (instead of enter), which makes it confusing to read the responses at times.
Is there any way to get something in my data to tell when they started a new line? (I am ok if it is recorded as a newline character such as ~n or something else)

Thanks!

RE: recording when a line is started in multiline textbox

Dave — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:18:50 GMT

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[b]thv - Tuesday, February 12, 2019[/b]

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No, I'm afraid there isn't. One alternative might be to use a <surveypage> with several single-line <textbox> elements instead of <openended>. E.g. if you expect your participants to provide up five short, distinct statements, you could do something like this:

<block exampleblock>
/ trials = [1=examplepage]
</block>

<surveypage examplepage>
/ caption = "Please provide up to five statements below:"
/ questions = [1=s1; 2=s2; 3=s3; 4=s4; 5=s5]
/ showpagenumbers = false
/ showquestionnumbers = false
/ finishlabel = "Submit"
</surveypage>

<textbox s1>
/ textboxsize = (80%, 5%)
/ required = false
</textbox>

<textbox s2>
/ textboxsize = (80%, 5%)
/ required = false
</textbox>

<textbox s3>
/ textboxsize = (80%, 5%)
/ required = false
</textbox>

<textbox s4>
/ textboxsize = (80%, 5%)
/ required = false
</textbox>

<textbox s5>
/ textboxsize = (80%, 5%)
/ required = false
</textbox>

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