Re: non-semi-colon
John Westbrook (jwest@wormhole.rutgers.edu)
Wed, 26 Jun 1996 07:26:07 -0400
On Jun 26, 2:13am, Simon Greenberg wrote:
> Subject: Re: non-semi-colon
>
> Who can explain me what does it mean....
>
> On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, herbert_bernstein wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:19:07 -0400
> > From: herbert_bernstein <yaya@aip.org>
> > To: simong@gene.md.huji.ac.il
> > Subject: non-semi-colon
> >
> > It appears that line 15745 and line 15748 each have a colon instead
> > of a semi-colon in cifdic.m96 version 0.8.02
> >
>-- End of excerpt from Simon Greenberg
Greetings,
The CIF syntax rules require that strings that span multiple lines be
surrounded by semi-colons. The semi-colon characters must be placed
in the first column of each line in which they appear. For instance,
;
This sentence spans multiple lines in a
CIF file.
;
is a valid multi-line string. Herb Bernstein is pointing out that there
are two typos in the mmCIF dictionary where semi-colons have been replaced
with colons.
Regards,
John
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