From: Seibold, Stephen (Seibold79_at_stmary.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 10 2011 - 10:05:21 CDT

Thanks John.I read the "selection methods" part, but I misunderstood it. Thanks so much for the clarifying it for me.

Steve

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From: John Stone [johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:43 AM
To: Seibold, Stephen
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: Selecting multiple ranges

Hi,
  Instead of "and" you should be using "or":
set sel0 [atomselect 0 "resid 1 to 10 or resid 50 to 100"]

When you use "and" both parts of the expression must be true
at the same time for atoms to be selected. When using "or" an
atom is selected if either part of the expression is true.
This is described in the VMD User's Guide. It's similar to
using advanced google searching syntax, database queries, etc.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:28:48PM +0000, Seibold, Stephen wrote:
> I have been in the TkC to select multiple ranges to do a "fit". I want to
> select multiple ranges separated by residues; however, I cannot find the
> method to do this. I tried
> >set sel0 [atomselect 0 "resid 1 to 10 and resid 50 to 100"]
> However, nothing I do seems to work. I looked on line, but could not
> locate how to do this. I know there must be a way, but am missing it...
> Can someone either tell me or direct me where at in the manual this answer
> is...I cannot find it.
> Cheers, Steve

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