JAL-653 trim initial tab in sequence feature ATTRIBUTES

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / io / FeaturesFile.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java b/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java
index 2009d9d..a9ad665 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java
@@ -515,9 +515,11 @@ public class FeaturesFile extends AlignFile
               if (st.hasMoreTokens())
               {
                 StringBuffer attributes = new StringBuffer();
+                boolean sep = false;
                 while (st.hasMoreTokens())
                 {
-                  attributes.append("\t" + st.nextElement());
+                  attributes.append((sep ? "\t" : "") + st.nextElement());
+                  sep = true;
                 }
                 // TODO validate and split GFF2 attributes field ? parse out
                 // ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*) <value> ; and add as