Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-09 Thread Robert Hanson
the number itself is really part of a complex syntax involving numbers, number ranges, and such. So the parser doesn't catch that when you put a variable in. (That's not evaluated until later.) You don't need the "@" when referring to variables with the "=" sign: select resno=i On Thu, Jan 8,

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-09 Thread Robert Hanson
ps this works if you use i as a string: i = "3-5" select @i On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Otis Rothenberger wrote: > I'm not sure if this is relevant because I don't fully understand the > context of this email chain. I'll offer this thought anyway. > > A while back (years) there was a discu

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-08 Thread Otis Rothenberger
I'm not sure if this is relevant because I don't fully understand the context of this email chain. I'll offer this thought anyway. A while back (years) there was a discussion of global vs local Jmol variables. I also did not fully understand this discussion! Nevertheless, this made all my glob

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-08 Thread Nelson Liu
Hi Rolf, Interesting that direct variable substitution doesn't work, thanks again! On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 4:48:26 AM Rolf Huehne wrote: > On 01/08/2015 01:39 PM, Nelson Liu wrote: > > Ah, I thought this was a continuation of the previous email, but i guess > I > > just hit reply. Can I use @i to

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-08 Thread Rolf Huehne
On 01/08/2015 01:39 PM, Nelson Liu wrote: > Ah, I thought this was a continuation of the previous email, but i guess I > just hit reply. Can I use @i to select residue numbers? I looked in the > documentation of the select statement, and it seemed like there was no > explicit property for residue n

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-08 Thread Nelson Liu
Ah, I thought this was a continuation of the previous email, but i guess I just hit reply. Can I use @i to select residue numbers? I looked in the documentation of the select statement, and it seemed like there was no explicit property for residue numbers. Thanks! On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 4:37:02 AM

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol Variable Iteration

2015-01-08 Thread Rolf Huehne
On 01/08/2015 01:23 PM, Nelson Liu wrote: > Hi Rolf, > I was wondering how one would utilize a variable in a FOR loop in Jmol. > This is my current code, but it doesn't select any atoms. > for (var i = 5; i< 92; i++){ > select @i and chain = A; > } > Nelson, please ask on the jmol-users list s