Re: [Jmol-users] a silly mistake?

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

I'm sure you always needed parentheses around that clause on the outside:

if (something) {then do this}

just like JavaScript.


so in this case

$ bigres=40
$ if ({resno > bigres}.size > 3) {print {resno > bigres}.size}
45


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Thomas Stout <tho...@gm...>wrote:

>
> I'm hoping fresh eyes can spot my trouble here.  I have a loop that cycles
> through a series of specific residues and selects out the one with the
> largest number of atoms.  Under prior versions of Jmol (11.6.RC16), I could
> get away with the following syntax:
>
>      if {(resno=bigres)}.size > 6
>
> I'm adapting these scripts for version 11.8+ and currently working with
> version 11.9.11 and it does not like this at all.  "Command expected" is the
> response.
>
> Is there another way of testing for the number of atoms in a residue number
> specified by my own variable?  I'm testing within a larger selection, so I'd
> like to not lose that selection.
>
> Thanks -- I feel like I'm staring right at the solution and not seeing
> it.....
> -Tom
>
> PS - I can supply the larger script, but I believe that I have narrowed the
> problem down to this {(resno=variable)} construct....
>         "print bigres" reports a proper numerical value, etc
>
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