Lists, selections & defaults

[James Bonfield]

Some more ACD questions. If I've missed something in the documentation then
please point me to it, otherwise please note it as a request for documentation 
improvements.

For the list type, what value should default have? I've seen examples thus:

showseq.acd:

  list: things [
        default: "B N T S F"
        values: 
                "S:Sequence,
                B:Blank line,
                1:Frame1 translation, 
                2:Frame2 translation, 
                3:Frame3 translation, 
		...

ajbad.acd: (is this deliberately a badly formatted acd file?

 list: frames [
        default: "1,2,3,4,5,6"
        values: "0: None, 1: F1,2: F2,3: F3,4: R1,5: R2,6: R3"
	...

dbiblast.acd:

  List: seqtype [ req: Y 
    prompt: "Sequence type"
    value: "N:nucleic;P:protein;?:unknown"
   max: 1 min: 1 def: unknown
  ]


So the default is sometimes the 'code' (as in showseq.acd) and sometimes the
'value' (dbiblast.acd). When default is a list, sometimes it is space
separated, and sometimes command separated.

How should I be parsing this?

James

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