I have a string that looks like:

 ... KPPET(L ATT)(I GAT)TTID ...

And I want to end up with a string that looks like:

 ... K P P E T (L ATT) (I GAT) T T I D ...

Notice that there is a space in between each letter EXCEPT in the (X YYY)
pattern where YYY has to stay together with NO intervening spaces. ( X YYY )
would be OK too.

Right now, I am adding spaces in a loop:

<cfset myString = "#ProteinSequence#">
<cfset myString_len = Len(myProteinSequence)>

<cfloop from="#myString_len#" to="1" step="-1" index="i">
        <cfset myProteinSequence = Insert(" ",myProteinSequence,i)>
</cfloop>

But this adds spaces everywhere, even where I don't want them , in the "YYY"
pattern, so I get:

 ... K P P E T ( L  A T T ) ( I  G A T ) T T I D ...

If I could do a "conditional insert" where it stops inserting a space when
it hits the first ")" and start again after it hits the next "(" but I am
not sure how to do it?

Any ideas would be appreciated, otherwise I need to explore regular express
replace with backreferences (maybe), which is a prospect too horrible to
contemplate ...

Richard Colman
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics




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