[Bioperl-l] Found bug in fasta.pm

[Hilmar Lapp]

Could you elaborate briefly what the bug with these lines actually is? I've
spent some time with checking that it indeed works for 'ordinary' fasta
records as well as some special ones Kris provided, so I'm curious about
which records make it do something wrong.

	Hilmar

Elia Stupka wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Elia Stupka (EnsEMBL)
> 
> 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;
> 
> What shall we do?
> 
> Elia
> 
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