Fix off-by-one error finding 3' cutoff. #51
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This patch fixes an off-by-one error in the 'sliding_window' function. Briefly, the function checks if window_start + window_size > fqrec->qual.l, to determine if the current window is the last window, and if it should therefore refine the 3' cutoff. However, the loop is constrained to i + window_size <= fqrec->qual.l, where i == window_start, so that check never succeeds. The result is that trailing low quality bases are not correctly trimmed if the average quality does not fall below the minimum before the last window.
The problem can be demonstrated with the following FASTQ read:
This is the output when processed with the current head (d802a80):
With the attached patch, the final refinement is carried out at the last window: