[Bioperl-l] limiting E value - Argument "e-134" isn't numeric?

[Joseph Bedell]

Hi Nandita,

You must be using NCBI-BLAST. NCBI has a problem in that they don't
include the '1' before E-values less than or equal to 1e-100. So, any
e-value you get back needs to be checked for '^e' and have a '1' added
on so it evaluates as a number.

$E = "1" . $E if $E =~ /^e/;

Joey

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org [mailto:bioperl-l-
>bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Nandita Mullapudi
>Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:10 AM
>To: bioperl-l at portal.open-bio.org
>Subject: [Bioperl-l] limiting E value - Argument "e-134" isn't numeric?
>
>I am using the following line in my script to limit e-values, and I
>remember having used it before without error messages, but now...
>
>the line is:  if ($hit_significance < 0.001 && $i < 3)
>                      { print ...}
>
>and the error message I get is
>
>Argument "e-134" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at try-exclude.pl line
31,
>         <GEN871> line 12023 (#1)
>(W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator
>     that expected a numeric value instead.  If you're fortunate the
>message
>     will identify which operator was so unfortunate.
>
>any quick insight appreciated. :)
>-Nandita
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