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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 16:43:20 CST

Lubos,
  
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:05:16PM +0100, Mgr. Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> >You can exlude things from an atom selection like this:
> > set ow [atomselect top "name OW and not index 5"]
> > The "and not" does the job in this case.
> this looks really promising... i'll definitely try it out.
>
> i don't know tcl and internal of vmd very well, is something like the
> following possible?
>
> set ow [atomselect top "name OW"]
> set oneresid [atomselect top "index 5"]
> set excluded [$ow and not $oneresid]

Not the way you've written it, but you could do something like this:
  set excluded [atomselect top \
                  [format "%s %s %s" [$ow text] "and not" [$oneresid text]]]

  John 

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