JAL-2598 Sequence.getSequence return a copy of the char array

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / util / Comparison.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java b/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java
index 22e1ab7..94d6300 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java
@@ -282,35 +282,10 @@ public class Comparison
     {
       return false;
     }
-    char[][] letters = new char[seqs.length][];
-    for (int i = 0; i < seqs.length; i++)
-    {
-      if (seqs[i] != null)
-      {
-        char[] sequence = seqs[i].getSequence();
-        if (sequence != null)
-        {
-          letters[i] = sequence;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return areNucleotide(letters);
-  }
 
-  /**
-   * Answers true if more than 85% of the sequence residues (ignoring gaps) are
-   * A, G, C, T or U, else false. This is just a heuristic guess and may give a
-   * wrong answer (as AGCT are also amino acid codes).
-   * 
-   * @param letters
-   * @return
-   */
-  static final boolean areNucleotide(char[][] letters)
-  {
     int ntCount = 0;
     int aaCount = 0;
-    for (char[] seq : letters)
+    for (SequenceI seq : seqs)
     {
       if (seq == null)
       {
@@ -318,8 +293,10 @@ public class Comparison
       }
       // TODO could possibly make an informed guess just from the first sequence
       // to save a lengthy calculation
-      for (char c : seq)
+      int len = seq.getLength();
+      for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
       {
+        char c = seq.getCharAt(i);
         if (isNucleotide(c))
         {
           ntCount++;