rsomics-fastq-utils 0.1.0

FASTQ utility toolkit — lightweight subcommands for counting, filtering, converting, and inspecting FASTQ files
Documentation
use std::io::{BufWriter, Write};
use std::path::Path;

use rsomics_common::{Result, RsomicsError};
use rsomics_seqio::open_fastq;

pub fn head(input: &Path, n: u64, output: &mut dyn Write) -> Result<u64> {
    if std::fs::metadata(input).is_ok_and(|m| m.len() == 0) {
        return Ok(0);
    }
    let mut reader = open_fastq(input)?;
    let mut out = BufWriter::with_capacity(256 * 1024, output);
    let mut count: u64 = 0;

    for result in reader.by_ref() {
        if count >= n {
            break;
        }
        let rec = result?;
        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(&rec.seq).map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(b"\n+\n").map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(&rec.qual).map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        out.write_all(b"\n").map_err(RsomicsError::Io)?;
        count += 1;
    }

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