rsomics-fasta-utils 0.1.2

FASTA utility toolkit — count, chroms, len, revcomp, rename, tab, wrap, unique, convert, and more
Documentation
use std::io::{BufWriter, Write};
use std::path::Path;

use needletail::parse_fastx_file;
use rsomics_common::{Result, RsomicsError};

pub fn convert(input: &Path, qual_char: u8, output: &mut dyn Write) -> Result<u64> {
    if std::fs::metadata(input).is_ok_and(|m| m.len() == 0) {
        return Ok(0);
    }
    let mut reader = parse_fastx_file(input)
        .map_err(|e| RsomicsError::InvalidInput(format!("{}: {e}", input.display())))?;
    let mut out = BufWriter::with_capacity(256 * 1024, output);
    let mut count: u64 = 0;

    while let Some(record) = reader.next() {
        let rec = record.map_err(|e| RsomicsError::InvalidInput(format!("parsing: {e}")))?;
        let seq = rec.seq();
        out.write_all(b"@").map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(rec.id()).map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(b"\n").map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(&seq).map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(b"\n+\n").map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        let qual = vec![qual_char; seq.len()];
        out.write_all(&qual).map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(b"\n").map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        count += 1;
    }

    out.flush().map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
    Ok(count)
}