Bug Stomp

What are you editing it with? Sounds like it's adding an extra carriage return to each line, and double-spacing the file (so every other line will be a blank one.)

I've tried it with both notepad and WordPad. Tried saving it as both plain text and RTF (which I didn't expect to work anyway)

it ought to work with Notepad, though it can add spurious hard breaks to files when saving if wordwrap is on.
I can highly recommend textpad (http://www.textpad.com) - it's fully-featured shareware, and I've never had any problems like that with it. Plus it can sort, spellcheck, find & replace, use macros and handle regexes very capably.

I love textpad - I lost my reg key for it a long time ago and never bothered to re-download it. Done that now, opened the LC and removed the first and last blank lines...

Looks like it's not doubling things any longer. Now just to find where it thinks there is a blank keyphrase...

Present Lines: 8048 • Import Lines: 8047
ATTENTION: This will overwrite all online work done since April 28 2006

Begin Language Center
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ERROR: Keyphrases cannot be blank.

I figured it out. One of my keyphrases was simply

!!!

the system was seeing that as blank

if you want that keyphrase you'll have to set it as a regex (raw mode too, obviously) -

([ ~!]+) (re) should do the job for any number of exclamation marks. If you want it to only cut in if there's no other text, ^([ ~!]+)$ (re) ought to do it.

replace the tildes with forward slashes (they won't display in forum posts.)

I was doing regex's the old way (back before there was RAW)

\"you live in (noun)$ (re)\"

It removed all of them when I uploaded

time to rebuild em the correct way I suppose

I found that often the error messages on imports refer to the line above the one reported. For example, if you put in a + no and forget to add a response for it, the error message will tell you the next keyphrase is not indented properly.

And another vote for TextPad. I've been using it exclusively for years. Now with WIldEdit it's even better. I'm thinking about writing a syntax file for PF, if anyone's interested. My biggest import problem is forgetting to put [0] after Seeks. Royal PIA, especially if you routinely put + yes, + no, + nomatch after the bot asks a question. Hundreds of the bloody things to search through.

M

Uh, I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but in the Language Center, when you're adding new responses, the number 3 is listed twice on the side where it numbers how many responses you have. (Man, I am awful at explaining things.)

Actually, whichever line has the last entered response will have its number duplicated. So if you've got three responses, the next line down will be 3____________. No clue why, but it holds until you fill them all up.

i have noticed that for ages i presumed it was a mistake.

Oh, OK. I just wondered why it did that.