[Bioperl-l] Bio::Annotations::Collection confusion

[Kevin Brown]

So, I'm parsing Genbank sequences to pull out the various exons. I found
the way to get the NCBI Exon number from each feature, but am confused
about one of the methods. When I do annotation->as_text I'm expecting to
get back 1 from the feature, but instead get back Value: 1 ??!? Why is
the value from the NCBI file getting that text tagged onto it?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/73622129
exon            1..774
                /gene="BOLA2"
                /gene_synonym="BOLA2A; My016"
                /inference="alignment:Splign"
                /number=1

print ($f->annotation->get_Annotations('number'))[0]->as_text;
Value: 1