[Bioperl-l] load_gff.pl error

[Lincoln Stein]

The issue is fixed in bioperl live.

Lincoln

PS: Mark, remember when I told you that your soul would be consigned to 
purgatory if you broke anything when you changed the ARGV handling?  Well, it 
happened.

On Thursday 09 October 2003 03:23 pm, Vamsi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use the load_gff.pl located in the Bio-DB-GFF/scripts
> directory of the bioperl-1.2.3 distribution.
>
> When I try
> "perl load_gff.pl --dsn dbi:mysql:XXX --user XXX --pass XXX a.gff"
>
> I get the error
>
> Can't use string ("ARGV") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use at
> /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Bio/DB/GFF.pm line 2130.
>
> When I modify sub do_load_gff in GFF.pm by having as the first line
> "no strict 'refs';"
> the error disappears.
>
> Is this something anyone else has faced?
>
> Thanks,
> Vamsi
>
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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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