From 336b270e68fe281a9a881f751fe850e8a92e05c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:37:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added a quieter bailout for cases when the featuresFile is
 really not going to manage to parse the file - consider
 revoking this in the future if it hinders debugging of
 features file input to jalview

---
 src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java b/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java
index 78e796e..3c8ad21 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/FeaturesFile.java
@@ -214,8 +214,15 @@ public class FeaturesFile
           {
             desc = st.nextToken();
           }
-
+          if (!st.hasMoreTokens())
+          {
+            System.err.println("DEBUG: Run out of tokens when trying to identify the destination for the feature.. giving up.");
+            // in all probability, this isn't a file we understand, so bail quietly.
+            return false;
+          }
+          
           token = st.nextToken();
+          
           if (!token.equals("ID_NOT_SPECIFIED"))
           {
             seq = align.findName(token);
-- 
1.7.10.2