[BioPerl] Re: [Bioperl-l] load_gff.pl error

[Mark Wilkinson]

Uh... no, you threatened me with purgatory if I broke the way data
loading from filehandles worked - you said nothing about messing with
ARGV ;-)

..besides, it doesn't look like this error is my fault??  I don't see
any code in there that came from my fingers.  do you know what bit of
code I wrote that is causing that error?

M

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:26, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> 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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Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>
Illuminae