[Bioperl-l] SearchIO failing test 203

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Aaron J Mackey wrote:

> 
> The failure had nothing to do with qr//, but with the fact that fasta
> result parsing now disambiguates between name and description ... tests
> updated, and that particular qr// usage removed (does qr really not work
> on 5.005 - lots of the SearchIO test uses qr to encapsulate a regexp for
> ok()).

qr probably does work on 5.005 - I just don't understand the syntax so I
couldn't fix stuff - in particular the ?-xism. ie- this is entirely my
ignorance, nothing else ;)


What does it all mean (I guess qr/ / means "quote regex")