thats a good idea tim, I'll try to figure out how to get the routine to
work only with 3 characters or more.
The reason I need to track the position is that eventually what I am
trying to do is compose a list of each of the compounds with its
ingredients, and I am thinking it would be easier to keep track of the
ingredients by number than by name (for faster processing in later
stages). For example...if you read my original post about the
ingredients, after I figure all this out, my output for "comp2" (from
original post) woudl be:
2 | comp2 | 4,5,6 (assuming the bars separate cells)
that is, the position of comp2 and the positions of the ingredients
separated by commas.
thank you,
-gguillermo
PS.- For the testing I am not using the iupac list as I dont have it
either...i am using a list with 8500 male and female names I found on
the web.