It appears there is a bug where numeric titles do not work with string
comparisons. Leave out the single quotes and it works (on my machine).
obabel ../input/in-3D.sdf -O 9782.sdf --filter "title=9782"
> On Nov 5, 2017, at 8:17 PM, Sundar <jubilantsun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> 9782 is not the 9782th molecule in the file.
> I also will have to loop through sdf for various other numbers. I asked this
> as an example.
>
> Thanks,
> Sundar
>
> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:13 PM, David Hall <li...@cowsandmilk.net
> <mailto:li...@cowsandmilk.net>> wrote:
> Assuming you want the 9782’th molecule in the file, using the -f and -l
> options to obabel is what you are looking for.
>
> obabel ../input/in-3D.sdf -O 9782.sdf -f 9782 -l 9782
>
>
> > On Nov 5, 2017, at 7:49 PM, Sundar <jubilantsun...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:jubilantsun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trying to extract a single molecule from a multimolecular sdf.
> > I used the following but it didn't work.
> >
> > obabel ../input/in-3D.sdf -O 9782.sdf --filter "title='9782'"
> >
> > Let me how can I do this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jubilant
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