[Bioperl-l] parsing blast reports

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Wed Apr 7 21:47:51 UTC 2010


We could do that for convenience, just another option.

chris

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 20:40 +0100, Gregory Jordan wrote:
> This particular trick isn't *too* ugly, but why don't we just add a
> "-string" parameter to the Bio::Root::IO module? Then, Bioperl users
> wouldn't have to independently discover the string filehandle trick every
> time they find themselves wanting to use a string instead of a file or
> handle. Personally, I've discovered, forgotten, and re-discovered this
> particular one more than once already.
> 
> The _initialize_io method in Bio::Root::IO already deals with two mutually
> exclusive input parameters ("file" and "fh"); is there a good reason why not
> to add a third and just include the string filehandle bit within that
> method?
> 
> greg
> 
> On 7 April 2010 19:06, Dave Messina <David.Messina at sbc.su.se> wrote:
> 
> > > Forgot about that one, much simpler.
> >
> > Me too, until I was doing this same thing a couple days ago... :)
> >
> >
> >
> > D
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