Orange: importing data with hash (#) in column name

Question

I want to load a data set which contains hash (#) symbol in the header. I work with bigrams and some of the columns are named "d#" or "z#"

According to Orange docs, hash is used to attribute type information, so for some of the columns I will get error that I am using a wrong specifier ("Invalid attribute flag z").

Is there any workaround to tell orange that my labels are not attributed?

Answer 1

You could prefix those header labels with a correct type# specifier, e.g. if you have a bag of bigrams data, replace d# and z# columns with C#d# and C#z#, marking them counts, continuous.

With some luck, Orange will interpret the first C# as continuous and the rest as attribute name.