hi Miguel,
at 6:42 pm EDT on (Friday) 21 November 2003 Miguel said: > In one of my email exchanges with Jan Reichert something came up that > we need to be aware of. > > The * is a valid atom name character in .pdb files. The PDB spec says > that it was/is used because the character encoding of the ' (prime) > character was not available on all platforms. > > However, in RasMol syntax the * is a wild-card character. > > That means that you cannot do a query that specifically selects atoms > with a * in their name. > > Is this a useful query? > very. most of the nucleic backbone atoms use * (O5*, O4*, etc.). > Do we need to add this to our list of syntax/parsing problems with the > RasMol atom expression language? > I guess so :-( :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
