fn() split
Divides the contents of a sequence file into sequence file fragments separated by a file format specific delimiter.

Defined in <seqan/file.h>
Signature void split(stringSet, formatTag);

Parameters

stringSet A ConcatDirectStringSet. The concat member (concatenation string) contains the contents of a sequence file.
formatTag A file format tag.

Detailed Description

Remarks

The concat member should contain the contents of the sequence file by a prior call of open.

This function expects a ConcatDirectStringSet and divides the underlying concatenation string into sequence fragments separated by a file format specific delimiter.

After calling this function, the StringSet length is the number of sequence fragments and each fragment can be retrieve by value or getValue.