[Bioperl-l] Found bug in fasta.pm

[Kris Boulez]

Quoting Elia Stupka (elia@ebi.ac.uk):
> I found a bug, which was introduced in main trunk, and then backported to
> branch-06. I have commented out these lines, and I leave it up to others
> if they want to do something about this.
> 
> 
> these are the lines:
>  # Jason applying HL's patch from 25/05/2000 
>       # (on 02/10/2000)
>       # a greater sign not preceded by a newline indicates that there is a
>       # '>' within the description, so we need more to complete the record
>       return unless defined($next_rec = $self->_readline());
>       $entry .= $next_rec;  
> 

Which erratic behaviour do you see ? This patch was introduced after a
question from me that Fasta.pm is not able to read

>A1234 This expresses >> 0.5
GGAAGGAAGGAA


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any more.

Kris,