From: Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...> - 2009-06-29 01:25:15
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Great! I'll double check tonight or tomorrow morning. Jonathan On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > ok. I got the dipole fixed -- it was just not rendering correctly > for the molecular dipole. > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uw...> > wrote: > Bob, > I think this means it isn't worth a special bit of code. It > would > just add unnecessary overhead to call the function. Even if we do > end up using this a lot, I don't think we can be much more > efficient. I withdraw my proposal. > > Jonathan > On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > > > I suppose it all depends upon how many times you have to do it and > > how long the string is. I thought you were counting words -- what > > you are doing is counting characters? then the following is the > > easiest: > > > > c = a.trim() + " " + b.trim() > > > > or > > > > c = (a[1][n]).trim() + " " + b.trim() > > > > > > There's not much advantage in doing the checks. Just trim and add. > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uw...> > > wrote: > > Bob, > > I think your suggestion achieves the same thing. However, > > isn't the > > overhead for tokenizing a whole string a lot higher that > splitting at > > just the insert location? > > > > Jonathan > > On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Robert Hanson wrote: > > > > > Well, what you are doing is adding "tokens", so there is a context > > > for this. It does sound a bit specialized, but we could consider > > > it. You can do it with: > > > > > > x = "this is a test" > > > token = "now" > > > print (x.split(" ") + token).join(" ") > > > > > > #or, to insert: > > > > > > y = x.split(" ") > > > print (y[1][2] + token + y[3][0]).join(" ") > > > > > > The idea there is to "tokenize" on space, make the addition (which > > > is in Jmol script an array append operation), then recreate the > > > string by joining with space again. > > > > > > This would work with newline characters as well, "\n" > > > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uw...> > > > wrote: > > > Because I'm generating strings that require inserting and > appending > > > words, I keep sticking in little pieces of code to make sure the > > > white space is correct. Thus I propose two versions of a utility > > > function that would do this and check the white space (see below). > > > The first version will append the word to the end (could call it > > > append word). The second will insert it at the specified > position. > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > > String insertWord(String oldstr, String word){ > > > if (oldstr.length() > 0 && !oldstr.endsWith(" ")) > > > oldstr += " "; > > > oldstr+=word; > > > return oldstr; > > > } > > > > > > String insertWord(String oldstr, String word, int insertpt){ > > > if (oldstr.length() == 0) { > > > oldstr = word; > > > return oldstr; > > > } > > > String part1 = oldstr.substring(0, insertpt);//may have my > > > indexes > > > messed up...need to check > > > String part2 = oldstr.substring((insertpt+1),oldstr.length > > ()); > > > if (!part1.endsWith(" ")) > > > part1 += " "; > > > if (!part2.beginsWith(" ")) > > > part2 = " "+part2; > > > part1+=word; > > > oldstr = part1 + part2 > > > return oldstr; > > > } > > > > > > > > > Dr. Jonathan H. 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Hanson > > > Professor of Chemistry > > > St. Olaf College > > > 1520 St. Olaf Ave. > > > Northfield, MN 55057 > > > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > > > phone: 507-786-3107 > > > > > > > > > If nature does not answer first what we want, > > > it is better to take what answer we get. > > > > > > -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -------- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Jmol-developers mailing list > > > Jmo...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > > > Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow > > Chemistry Department gu...@uw... > > UW-Oshkosh Office: > > 920-424-1326 > > 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX: > 920-424-2042 > > Oshkosh, WI 54901 > > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Jmol-developers mailing list > > Jmo...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > > > > > > > -- > > Robert M. Hanson > > Professor of Chemistry > > St. Olaf College > > 1520 St. Olaf Ave. > > Northfield, MN 55057 > > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > > phone: 507-786-3107 > > > > > > If nature does not answer first what we want, > > it is better to take what answer we get. > > > > -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Jmol-developers mailing list > > Jmo...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow > Chemistry Department gu...@uw... > UW-Oshkosh Office: > 920-424-1326 > 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 > Oshkosh, WI 54901 > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/ > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > Jmo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > > > -- > Robert M. Hanson > Professor of Chemistry > St. Olaf College > 1520 St. Olaf Ave. > Northfield, MN 55057 > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > phone: 507-786-3107 > > > If nature does not answer first what we want, > it is better to take what answer we get. > > -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > Jmo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow Chemistry Department gu...@uw... UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 Oshkosh, WI 54901 http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/ |