Illegal characters when running CHECK

[Linda Mortensen]

Dear list members,
I am running the CHECK command on a series of chat files. I have corrected all the syntax errors in the files, except for one type of error that I don't know what to do about. Below I have pasted an output from the CHECK command that contains this error type. As you will see, specific letter are considered to be illegal characters. In the example, these are the letters "y" in "boy", "g" in "big", and "d" in "kind". In other chat files, other letters are considered illegal. Does anyone know how I correct these illegal characters? Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Thanks
Linda
 

> check +g3 01_DK2C.S.cha
Language codes file being used: "C:\childes\clan\lib\fixes\ISO-639.cut"
Dep-file being used: "C:\childes\clan\lib\depfile.cut"
check +g3 01_DK2C.S.cha
Tue Mar 27 15:16:22 2012
check (23-Jan-2012) is conducting analyses on:
  ALL speaker tiers
    and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers
  and ALL header tiers
****************************************
From file <01_DK2C.S.cha>
*** File "01_DK2C.S.cha": line 22.
*AST:    I think they went to the eh toy    department first eh were they eh.
Illegal character(s) 'y' found after Tier name.(123)
*** File "01_DK2C.S.cha": line 24.
*AST:    I think they made a big    mess and eh ended up with ah eh all kind
Illegal character(s) 'g' found after Tier name.(123)
*** File "01_DK2C.S.cha": line 38.
*AST:    you could see they w- there were birds and rabbits and all kind    of
Illegal character(s) 'd' found after Tier name.(123)

Warning: BASIC SYNTAX ERROR - Second pass not attempted !
Warning: Please repeat CHECK until no error messages are reported! 

[G.W. Bol]

Dear Linda,

It looks like you have to delete the space after the letters you
mentioned. Did you try that?
Best,
Gerard Bol.

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[Brian MacWhinney]

I'll bet that the problem is that the illegal characters are actually tabs. CHAT wants tabs to be in only one place at the beginning of
lines after the colon.

-- Brian MacWhinney

[Linda Mortensen]

Dear Gerad,
Many thanks for your reply. I have just checked the input (chat) and output files from the CHECK function, and neither file contains the spaces you're referring to. They only appear after I pasted the text into the email. I have attached the input and output files. Maybe you want to have a look at them?  
Linda

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[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Linda,

     The problem with the file was the tabs, as I suggested.  Also, blank lines, which I removed.  I will send you the checked file separately.

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On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Linda Mortensen wrote:

Dear Gerad,
Many thanks for your reply. I have just checked the input (chat) and output files from the CHECK function, and neither file contains the spaces you're referring to. They only appear after I pasted the text into the email. I have attached the input and output files. Maybe you want to have a look at them?  
Linda

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, G.W. Bol <G.W...@rug.nl> wrote:

Dear Linda,

It looks like you have to delete the space after the letters you mentioned. Did you try that?
Best,
Gerard Bol.

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<01_DK2C.S.cha><01_DK2C.S_CLAN Output.cha>

[Leonid Spektor]

Linda,

It is also very important to keep up with the new CLAN if you get into a situation where you are not sure what exactly the problems is. We are constantly improving CLAN and in this particular case the way check reports errors. The latest version of CLAN correctly identifies TAB as the error character.

Leonid.