molimporter.read() and comments

I was wondering if molimporter.read() had any support for comments in a smarts or smiles file?

The documentation states that molimporter.read() gets the next molecule. Does this mean that it skips rows in a file that don't give a valid molecule? What about blank lines?

e.g. The following smarts file seems to be read okay, giving just one query

# comment here
aNC(=O)a<tab>name

using the snippet from your TagByQuery code from an earlier post

        MolImporter molimp = new MolImporter(smartsfile + "{fTAG}"); 
        molimp.setQueryMode(true); //SMARTS
        Molecule mol;
        queries = new ArrayList<Molecule>();
        while ((mol = molimp.read())!= null) {
            queries.add(mol);
        }
        molimp.close();

Thanks

Stephen

Hi Stephen,

yes it will omit the lines started with #, and it will read empty lines as empty molecules.

You can test if a molecule is empty with the Molecule.isEmpty method.

Regards,
Istvan