merge from develop

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / datamodel / Alignment.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java
index 15df67b..5d1fc60 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java
@@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ public class Alignment implements AlignmentI
     boolean hasValidSeq = false;
     for (SequenceI seq : getSequences())
     {
-      if (seq.getSequenceAsString().matches("(-*[a-zA-Z]-*){1}[a-zA-Z-]*"))
+      if ((seq.getEnd() - seq.getStart()) > 0)
       {
         hasValidSeq = true;
         break;