[Bioperl-l] MSG: acc does not exist, but acc is OK and bioperl version is 1.2.2

[Andreas Kahari]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:14:40AM -0500, Vince Forgetta wrote:
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> ------------- EXCEPTION  -------------
> MSG: acc does not exist
> STACK Bio::DB::WebDBSeqI::get_Seq_by_acc 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Bio/DB/WebDBSeqI.pm:177
> 
> My code is:
> 
>    use Bio::DB::RefSeq;
>    $gb = new Bio::DB::RefSeq;
>    my $seq;
>    $seq = $gb->get_Seq_by_acc('$accession');

Perl does not interpolate variables in within single quotes.
You probably want to say

    $seq = $gb->get_Seq_by_acc($accession);


Cheers,
Andreas

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