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From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2017 - 09:12:33 CDT

Dear Mark,

your expression is just missing parentheses. Try this:
(within 10 of name A) and not within 5 of name A

Best,
Jerome

On 24 April 2017 at 13:28, Kamps, M. <m.kamps_at_student.rug.nl> wrote:

> Dear VMD users,
>
> I cannot figure out how to make the following work:
>
> I want to select all atoms within a certain distance of a group of
> atoms, however, I want only a small section of that set.
> For example, suppose I have a atom A, and I want to select all atoms
> within 5 of that atom A, I simply enter:
> within 5 of name A
>
> However, now suppose I would like to see all atoms from 5 to 10 within
> that atom A. Which means I want to select the set "within 10 of name
> A", but I want to subtract "within 5 of name A" from this set. How can
> I do this?
>
> When I enter:
> within 10 of name A and not within 5 of name A
> I do not obtain the desired results.
>
> Any ideas? Kind regards,
>
> Mark
>
>