Creating a QES file from delimited ASCII (AskiaTools)

Use this AskiaTools feature to convert a delimited ASCII (.txt) file into a QES file.

To import a delimited ASCII file:

  1. Open the file menu and select import, then delimited ASCII.... The delimited ASCII import dialog appears:
  2. Next to ASCII file, click ... and specify the path to your ASCII source file.
  3. Next to Askia file, click  ... (i.e. name the new *.QES file, and specify where it is to be saved).
  4. Set the options.
  5. Finally, click OK.

Options

The available options are:

Option Description

ASCII file

Type the path and filename of the source (.txt) file or click ... and select the file.

Askia file

Type the path and filename of the output file (where the data will be stored), or click ... and specify the path and filename in the file dialog.
Max number of responses Determines how askiatools will identify questions as closed or open text in the source file. If a variable has the stated number of unique responses or fewer, it will be considered a closed question; if it has more responses than this, it will be considered an open text question. For example, if you enter 20 here, then any question with more than 20 different responses will be treated as an open text question.
Max number of discrete values Determines how askiatools will identify questions as closed or open numeric in the source file. If a variable has the stated number of unique numeric responses or fewer, it will be considered a closed question; if it has more responses than this, it will be considered an open numeric question. For example, if you enter 10 here, then any question with more than 10 different responses will be treated as an open numeric question.

Question separator

Specify the character used to separate questions in the source file ("TAB", ";", ":" or ",").

Multiple response separator

Specify the character used to separate responses in multi-coded questions ("TAB", ";", ":" or ",").
Question captions on the first row

Select this option to indicate that the first line of the ASCII file contains the question captions.

Import rows with errors

Select this option to import rows in the source file that contain errors.
Always use '.' as the decimal point

Select this option to indicate that the decimal point is always '.'
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