--message_field

Switch

--message_field

Description

For functions that use the message field of the message table, specifies the MySQL column containing the message.

Argument and Default Value

For most message tables, this will not be necessary, since the name of the message field tends to be uniform.

Details

See also --date_field, --messageid_field.

Other Switches

Required Switches: None Optional Switches: None

Example Commands

Using the packaged dla_tutorial dataset (see Differential Language Analysis (DLA) Tutorial), whose msgs table already uses the default column name message — this is only needed if your table uses a different column name:

dlatkInterface.py -d dla_tutorial -t msgs -c user_id --message_field message --add_ngrams