[Bioperl-l] GFF handling in SeqFeatureI

[Mark Wilkinson]

Beautiful!

Since Matthews message earlier today I've been playing off and on all
day today trying to "break" the gff2 input/output with no success...

Can anyone send me an example GFF string to import, or a feature
definition to export, which will cause this error?  I checked the
GFF.t script and it seemed to work fine... or?  Which script were you
referring to Matthew?

Actually, there *is* a way to break it, but the thought of trying to
bullet-proof against that bug gives me the shivers!  If you have a
free-text value to a tag, and this free-text contains a semicolon, then
the attributes parser will read that semicolon as the delimiter for the
next set of tag/values... ugh!  Hopefully people wont use semicolons in
their freetext very often...

M



Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Today saw an excellent (well, that's my personal view :)
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> coproduction of 3 people:
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> Dr. Mark Wilkinson
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> National Research Council of Canada
> Plant Biotechnology Institute
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> Saskatoon, SK
> Canada
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