X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fgui%2FStructureChooser.java;h=d313002339e3377beaf85738ac6e81c1def06b56;hb=e4c2aac5d24da467eba0fcb27fe2d67f090a99bf;hp=34c9b79b778dcced73a40fd53c72a8f434724f83;hpb=756e5256d99bbeab177b1a2a8a2296aeb128866b;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/StructureChooser.java b/src/jalview/gui/StructureChooser.java
index 34c9b79..d313002 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/StructureChooser.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/StructureChooser.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Objects;
 
 import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
 import javax.swing.JComboBox;
@@ -301,6 +302,7 @@ public class StructureChooser extends GStructureChooser implements
     if (!isPDBRefsFound && !isUniProtRefsFound)
     {
       String seqName = seq.getName();
+      seqName = sanitizeSeqName(seqName);
       String[] names = seqName.toLowerCase().split("\\|");
       for (String name : names)
       {
@@ -328,6 +330,21 @@ public class StructureChooser extends GStructureChooser implements
   }
 
   /**
+   * Remove the following special characters from input string +, -, &, |, !, (,
+   * ), {, }, [, ], ^, ", ~, *, ?, :, \
+   * 
+   * @param seqName
+   * @return
+   */
+  private static String sanitizeSeqName(String seqName)
+  {
+    Objects.requireNonNull(seqName);
+    return seqName.replaceAll("\\[\\d*\\]", "")
+            .replaceAll("[^\\dA-Za-z ]", "").replaceAll("\\s+", "+");
+  }
+
+
+  /**
    * Ensures sequence ref names are not less than 3 characters and does not
    * contain a database name
    *