The display in my original message below is not correct. It looks like one long text string and when displayed, it is a jumble because it just seems to wrap whereever.
I want it to look like: (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) (I ATC) (D GAT) (T ACT) (E GAA) (S TCT) (W TGG) (K AAA) (S TCT) (Y TAC) (Y TAC) (K AAA) (S TCT) (D GAT) (P CCA) (L CTG) (C TGC) (S TCT) (A GCT) (V GTT) (L CTG) (I ATT) (H CAC) (M ATG) (K AAA) (E GAA) (L CTG) (T ACT) (Q CAG) (H CAC) (N AAC) (V GTT) (T ACC) (P CCA) (E GAA) (D GAT) (M ATG) (S TCT) (A GCT) (F TTC) (R CGT) (S TCT) (Y TAC) (Q CAG) (K AAG) (K AAA) (L CTG) (E GAA) (L TTG) (S TCT) (E GAA) etc. On 11/23/2010 10:18 AM, Rick Colman wrote: > I have a lot of nucleotide data coming back from a query, that looks like: > > (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) > (I ATC) (D GAT) (T ACT) (E GAA) (S TCT) (W TGG) (K AAA) (S TCT) (Y TAC) > (Y TAC) (K AAA) (S TCT) (D GAT) (P CCA) (L CTG) (C TGC) (S TCT) (A GCT) > (V GTT) (L CTG) (I ATT) (H CAC) (M ATG) (K AAA) (E GAA) (L CTG) (T ACT) > (Q CAG) (H CAC) (N AAC) (V GTT) (T ACC) (P CCA) (E GAA) (D GAT) (M ATG) > (S TCT) (A GCT) (F TTC) (R CGT) (S TCT) (Y TAC) (Q CAG) (K AAG) (K AAA) > (L CTG) (E GAA) (L TTG) (S TCT) (E GAA) etc. > > I want to display it in lines and columns like: > > (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) > (I ATC) > (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) > (I ATC) > (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) > (I ATC) > etc. > > so users can actually make some sense out of it. > > I may just put it into a table, or may need to display it within a form > in a textarea. > > Any idea on how to process the text string to get a nice, "lined up" > display? > > (I am sorry about constantly bothering the list about these kinds of > things, but I am not much of a programmer and you guys are really great > about helping out.) > > > Rick. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339459 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm