Date:         Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:21:03 -0400
Reply-To:     msz03@albany.edu
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From:         Mike Zdeb <msz03@ALBANY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Lament: character variable length limitation
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"I am about to head off to the gym, but I thought I leave some disappointment behind."

oops, I thought I had mistakenly stumbled upon Twitter

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Mike Zdeb
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> I am about to head off to the gym, but I thought I leave some
> disappointment behind.  I wish SI would eliminate the length limitation on
> character variables so I could work with DNA sequences :(  I have to
> tailor my matching algorithms to multiple observations (one bases of
> length one per observation, for say, 186,000 bases) instead of using the
> spiffy regexes on a single variable.  Its driving me to perl :( :(
>