[Bioperl-l] Bio::Annotation::SimpleValue

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

I fixed that on both head and branch. The method worked but overload messed 
things up. 

    -Heikki

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:39, Brian Osborne wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Can you submit exactly what you've written below as a bug? The page is
> http://bugzilla.bioperl.org. If you submit it it's sure to be addressed,
> otherwise it may get lost in the email stream.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Brian O.
>
> On 11/16/05 4:03 PM, "Paul Mooney" <pjm at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have stumbled on a problem when writing out an EMBL file. If my input
> > is;
> >
> > FT   repeat_region   5..963
> > FT                   /colour="0"
> >
> > when I try to write it out I get
> >
> > FT   repeat_region   5..963
> > FT                   /colour=""
> >
> > I think this is down to Bio::Annotation::SimpleVal doing a 'truth test'
> > on the value of the qualifier (zero is false), hence I get an empty
> > string. The code in SimpleValue.pm is;
> >
> > use overload '""' => sub { $_[0]->value || ''};
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul.
> >
> > PS, its the same on 1.5.1 and live. Heres a simple test;
> >
> > use strict;
> > use Bio::Annotation::SimpleValue;
> >
> > my $simple = Bio::Annotation::SimpleValue->new(
> >                                                -tagname => 'colour',
> >                                                -value   => '0',
> >                                                );
> > print "SimpleValue = $simple\n";
> >
> >
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