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Extracting Codebook from Syntax

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SMCM	SMCM posted 4 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 9, Visits: 41	We are working with several different Inquisit tasks, and for our lab's sake are looking to extract the codebooks from the syntax (user manual) into a separate document (word or text file). Is there a way to do this, or do I need to manually copy everything into a document? For reference, 'codebook' is in reference to the individual variables and their descriptions. EX: "blockcode, blocknum: the name and number of the current block (built-in Inquisit variable)" Thanks!
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Dave	Dave posted 4 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 109K	+x SMCM - 2/10/2021 We are working with several different Inquisit tasks, and for our lab's sake are looking to extract the codebooks from the syntax (user manual) into a separate document (word or text file). Is there a way to do this, or do I need to manually copy everything into a document? For reference, 'codebook' is in reference to the individual variables and their descriptions. EX: "blockcode, blocknum: the name and number of the current block (built-in Inquisit variable)" Thanks! Inquisit script files (.iqx) are simple plain text files (encoding is UTF-8), so if you're fluent in Python or some other programming language, you could certainly write a quick script that automatically extracts the contents between the <usermanual> open and </usermanual> close tags and copies them into some separate text file.
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