From 38bd1342ee0835f10ba1a7e7f7f1150a817bcde6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia <cyenyxe@ebi.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:06:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added note about languages native support
---
VCFv4.3.tex | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/VCFv4.3.tex b/VCFv4.3.tex
index 95dd17b6e..f1b3899c9 100644
--- a/VCFv4.3.tex
+++ b/VCFv4.3.tex
@@ -94,8 +94,17 @@ \subsection{Character encoding, non-printable characters and characters with spe
\subsection{Data types}
-Data types supported by VCF are: Integer (32-bit, signed), Float (32-bit IEEE-754, formatted to match one of the regular expressions \verb|^[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?$| or \verb"^[-+]?(INF|INFINITY|NAN)$" case insensitively), Flag, Character, and String.
-For the Integer type, the values from $-2^{31}$ to $-2^{31}+7$ cannot be stored in the binary version and therefore are disallowed in both VCF and BCF, see \ref{BcfTypeEncoding}.
+The data types supported by VCF are:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item Integer (32-bit, signed): Values from $-2^{31}$ to $-2^{31}+7$ cannot be stored in the binary version and therefore are disallowed in both VCF and BCF, see \ref{BcfTypeEncoding}.
+ \item Float (32-bit IEEE-754): Formatted to match one of the regular expressions \verb|^[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?$| or \verb"^[-+]?(INF|INFINITY|NAN)$" case insensitively.
+ Please note that native support for the later varies across programming languages.
+ \item Flag
+ \item Character
+ \item String
+\end{itemize}
+
\subsection{Meta-information lines}
File meta-information is included after the \#\# string and must be key=value pairs.