[Bioperl-l] Re: Can't call method "seek" without a package or object reference

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Todd Richmond wrote:
> > 
> > On 2/27/01 12:00 PM, "Hilmar Lapp" <hilmarl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > In my perldoc seek is a 'normal' function that doesn't need a
> > > package specified. Is this different in 5.004, or on Macs? Does
> > > seek() in general work on Macs?
> > >
> > 
> > I've used seek() in several of my scripts, so this isn't a general problem
> > with seek() on Macs.
> > 
> 
> So the bugger is probably IO::File? Could you meanwhile figure out
> what the situation is on Macs in this respect?
> 
> As I don't see what could be done in the code except for
> completely discarding the use of IO::File (Ewan, was there a
> particular reason to use that in LargePrimarySeq instead of a
> plain GLOB?), this seems to be unfixable. Any suggestions or
> clues?

IO::File just seemed like the "better way" to do it. We could just make it
a GLOB.


> 
> 	Hilmar
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