Re: [Cdk-devel] SDF file with multiple newline characters

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Nina Jeliazkova wrote:

> While reading such files, CDK MDLReader perceives two line breaks  
> instead of
> one and as a result the structure can't be read correctly (if at  
> all). The
> question is - is it correct at all to have both CR and CR/LF and  
> does it make
> sense for MDLReader to be fixed?

All sorts of newlines can be found in MDL files (indeed in almost any  
text file). I've seen cases with Windows/DOS linebreaks like you  
describe, and then later just old Mac line-breaks (just LF) and then  
just UNIX line breaks (CR).

The only solution we found for Open Babel was to add a filter for all  
text input that standardizes to UNIX line breaks for everything. This  
is now implemented in OB-2.1.

I'd be more than happy to send you all sorts of strange MDL files if  
you want. They will shortly go into the Blue Obelisk repository.

Cheers,
-Geoff