[Biojava-l] get all symbols in an alphabet

[Schreiber, Mark]

Hi -

If the Alphabet is a FiniteAlphabet you can get an iterator over the
Alphabet or you can use AlphabetManager to generate an AlphabetIndex
which can be used to access each Symbol.

The getSymbol method you describe generates an ambiguity symbol that
uniquely describes the set of Symbols in the list.

- Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ren, Zhen [mailto:zren@amylin.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2003 10:40 a.m.
> To: biojava-l@biojava.org
> Subject: [Biojava-l] get all symbols in an alphabet
> 
> 
> Hi, gang,
> 
> How do I get all symbols in an alphabet?  The Alphabet 
> interface has a method:
> 
> Symbol getSymbol(java.util.List rl);
> 
> Can someone help me understand what symbol it really returns, 
> a random one, the first one or what?  How do I use this?
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Zhen
> 
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