[Bioperl-l] Errors generated from example code in HOW-TO section

[Jason Stajich]

http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474
It is already fixed on the main trunk - I don't think we intend to a
1.2.3 release.

-jason
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Wes Barris wrote:

> The HOW-TO section http://www.bioperl.org/HOWTOs/html/Graphics-HOWTO.html
> shows examples using this code fragment:
>
> while( my $hit = $result->next_hit ) {
>    next unless $hit->significance < 1.0;
>    my $feature = Bio::SeqFeature::Generic->new(-score   => $hit->raw_score,
>                                                -seq_id => $hit->name,
>
> If warnings are turned on, then the 2nd line above produces these errors:
>
> Argument "e-171" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at blasttoimg.pl line 49, <DATA> line 191.
> Argument "e-163" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at blasttoimg.pl line 49, <DATA> line 191.
> Argument "e-160" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at blasttoimg.pl line 49, <DATA> line 191.
> Argument "e-160" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at blasttoimg.pl line 49, <DATA> line 191.
> Argument "e-160" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at blasttoimg.pl line 49, <DATA> line 191.
>
> I would suggest that when parsing a blast file, if the evalue does not
> begin with a digit, a '1' (one) should be placed at the beginning of the
> reported evalue.
>
>

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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu