[Bioperl-l] underscores in names from AlignIO::phylip.pm

Aaron J Mackey Aaron J. Mackey" <amackey@virginia.edu
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:30:55 -0400 (EDT)


Does anyone object to this patch?  I see that underscores are used to
remove spaces/illegal characters from sequence names (and I also see where
the trailing spaces are being added), but I wonder if anyone is actually
depending on their seq names to be exactly 10 chars long ... ?

Index: phylip.pm
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RCS file: /home/repository/bioperl/bioperl-live/Bio/AlignIO/phylip.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -r1.12 phylip.pm
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>           $name =~ s/_+$//; # remove any trailing _'s

-Aaron


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