[Open-bio-l] White space in FASTQ files?

[Peter Rice]

Peter C. wrote:
> Other than the special case of new lines which we have already covered
> (allowed but line wrapping is discouraged), should FASTQ sequence
> lines (and indeed the quality lines) ever be allowed to include white
> space (e.g. spaces and tabs)? I've never seen this in a real FASTQ
> file, and would like to suggest this be considered an error.
> 
> Comments? Counter suggestions?

I am happy adding a warning message in EMBOSS for this.

If we add too many warning messages then we could break our plan to
issue one message and follow with "and another 999999 up to ..." if we
find ourselves issuing more than one warning per sequence.

regards,

Peter Rice