X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fio%2FAlignFile.java;h=85f23a4d46f7c423e50c9f7d5dda51c197e46d2c;hb=a7bec763a3e4f17a549115f8f9f19ee4c742c26b;hp=1dafb91284fc1592011b00d86502cb85f28e05eb;hpb=04011072920c5e2587a8d549869ee47e28ad7d81;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/AlignFile.java b/src/jalview/io/AlignFile.java
index 1dafb91..85f23a4 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/AlignFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/AlignFile.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer
-* Copyright (C) 2005 AM Waterhouse, J Procter, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
+* Copyright (C) 2006 AM Waterhouse, J Procter, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -111,13 +111,12 @@ public abstract class AlignFile extends FileParse
     }
 
     // Checks whether sequence is valid aa characters
-    protected boolean isValidProteinSequence(String sequence)
+    protected boolean isValidProteinSequence(char [] sequence)
     {
-        for (int i = 0; i < sequence.length(); i++)
-            if (!jalview.schemes.ResidueProperties.aaHash.containsKey(
-                        String.valueOf(sequence.charAt(i))))
+        for (int i = 0; i < sequence.length; i++)
+            if (jalview.schemes.ResidueProperties.aaIndex[sequence[i]]==-1)
             {
-                invalidCharacter = sequence.charAt(i);
+                invalidCharacter = sequence[i];
                 return false;
             }