Punctuation seems to disappear after importing from text

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I have a list of quotes and some end with punctuation like exclamation marks, question marks, apostrophes, quotes, and probably others. It seems to consistently take the last character off but only if it’s a punctuation mark, no letters are missing from words. How can I stop this from happening? I have the tildes in between words to keep phrases together, is there some similar thing I need to do to make that happen?

Should mention, I’m using the text file import tool, it removes the characters during the import process. Everything that isn’t a letter gets erased from the end, but not the middle and it seems not the beginning that I can tell. Parentheses, asterisks, any form of punctuation.

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You cannot keep punctuation when using the text import tool. Only option is to manually edit the word list after your text has been imported.

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What about any of the other import tools, like the csv one? Or do you mean all forms of importing text?

Edit: CSV seems to be able to handle it.

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All options in the “Words” dropdown that start with “Extract” will strip punctuation. CSV will indeed not, as it imports a word list literally. If CSV works for you, that’s great!

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