ValidateName #

Verify that all segments have the same read name (or a shared prefix).

[[step]]
    action = "ValidateName"
    # Optional separator character; the comparison stops at the first match
    readname_end_char = "_" # Optional. Do not set for exact matching. Otherwise, a byte character

When no separator character is provided the entire name must match exactly across all segments.

Otherwise the read names are truncated after the first readname_end_char, and the prefixes must match exactly. For example, use readname_end_char = "_" for typical Illumina _1/_2 suffixes.

Note that this validation requires at least two input segments so there is a name to compare against, mbf-fastq-processor will return an error otherwise.

(Internally, this is replaced with a SpotCheckReadPairing with sample_stride=1).