Re: [VCFtools-spec] Clarification regarding comment and uniqueness of keys in VCF header

[Petr D. <pd...@sa...>]

Hi Len,

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:04 +1200, Len Trigg wrote:
> Two simple queries:
> 
> Is it possible to represent comments in the VCF file? If so, how?  The
> spec makes no mention of comments.
> 
> The spec says that meta information is often included as key=value
> pairs. It does not say whether keys need to be unique, although since
> the INFO/FILTER/FORMAT keys are repeated in the file this suggests
> that keys can be repeated.  We have tried including header lines that
> use the same key and found that the vcftools (e.g. vcf-annotate,
> vcf-isec) do not preserve these header lines. Should I enter this as a
> bug in the vcftools tracker?  The spec should be clarified either way.

this is a bug and has been fixed in the latest SVN revision, please try
it out.

Best,
Petr


> 
> Cheers,
> Len.
> 
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