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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 10:03:14 CST

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Himanshu Khandelia wrote:

HK> This might be a very elementary question.
HK>
HK> In the Tkconsole, I am not being able to use wildcards in the atomselect
HK> facility. The following do not work:
HK>
HK> # To select atom names starting with the letter C,
HK> set temp [atomselect top "name "C.*""]
HK> set temp [atomselect top "name \"C.*\""]
HK> set temp [atomselect top "name 'C.*'"]
HK> set temp [atomselect top "name "C*""]
HK>
HK>
HK> What is way around this ?

the 'clean' solution is:
set temp [atomselect top {name "C.*"}]

but this one also works for me (and it should):

set temp [atomselect top "name \"C.*\""]

please check out the tcl documentation on the
syntax for defining strings and quoting characters
in strings.

cheers,
   axel.

HK> 

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