From 8b67ce6de89caceac3cb7d1c520c14f8966bf827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: martinahansen <martinahansen@74ccb610-7750-0410-82ae-013aeee3265d>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:24:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] speedup fix of max_homopol again

git-svn-id: http://biopieces.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1191 74ccb610-7750-0410-82ae-013aeee3265d
---
 code_ruby/Maasha/lib/seq.rb | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code_ruby/Maasha/lib/seq.rb b/code_ruby/Maasha/lib/seq.rb
index 23e6965..696e070 100644
--- a/code_ruby/Maasha/lib/seq.rb
+++ b/code_ruby/Maasha/lib/seq.rb
@@ -164,13 +164,11 @@ class Seq
 
   # Method that returns the length of the longest homopolymeric stretch
   # found in a sequence.
-  def homopol_max
-    max = 1
-
+  def homopol_max(max = 1)
     return 0 if self.seq.nil? or self.seq.empty?
 
     self.seq.upcase.scan(/A{#{max},}|T{#{max},}|G{#{max},}|C{#{max},}|N{#{max},}/) do |match|
-      max = [match.size, max].max
+      max = match.size > max ? match.size : max
     end
 
     max
-- 
2.39.5