From 01af3d0663490c176a5052ee316ddd8b87aa1fec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chartl <chartl@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:24:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update an error message :)

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@2842 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 .../sting/gatk/walkers/filters/VariantFiltrationWalker.java     | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/filters/VariantFiltrationWalker.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/filters/VariantFiltrationWalker.java
index 8fb655d30..e84fcddf1 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/filters/VariantFiltrationWalker.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/filters/VariantFiltrationWalker.java
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ public class VariantFiltrationWalker extends RodWalker<Integer, Integer> {
                 if ( (Boolean)exp.exp.evaluate(jContext) )
                     addFilter(filterString, exp.name);
             } catch (Exception e) {
-                throw new StingException(e.getMessage());
+                throw new StingException("Error evaluating filter expression for given input. Most often this is caused by a malformatted expression string, such as using an integral comparison for floating-point values. Observed value was: "+e.getMessage());
             }
         }