[Eeglablist] Variable name to use is still invalid

[Arnaud Delorme]

Dear Yacila,

The problem is not with “-“ but likely with another character that prevent the conversion of a string to a MATLAB variable name. It is most likely one of the event columns in your events.tsv BIDS files. Just share a couple with us and we will see which character it is.

Cheers,

Arno

> On Apr 7, 2023, at 12:34 AM, Deza-Lougovski, Yacila <yacila.deza-lougovski at unibw.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear EEGLAB mailing list,
> 
> I am a new user of EEGLAB and EEG in general.
> 
> We have an issue while importing a BIDS dataset with teaching purposes. After importing the file, There is a pop-up window from EEGLAB telling us "the variable name to use is still invalid, check chars to remove"
> The windows points at the cleanvarname function, line 41. When  I  check the function, I see that the variable name shouldn't contain characters such as "-" (which is everywhere in BIDS dataset).
> Is this the problem? How can I solve it?
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> 
> Dr. Yacila I. Deza-Lougovski
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> Biologische Psychologie/Biological Psychology
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