We identified an issue where passing a regular expression as group_name, which is intended to be a simple string, results in unexpected behavior. This attribute is crucial as it maps to transect_num and is used by echopype. Although the test workflow did not utilize transect-focused stages like combine_echodata, errors were observed during the compute_Sv stage that was followed by open_raw. This PR aims to address this by implementing a validation check to ensure group_name contains only valid characters.
We identified an issue where passing a regular expression as
group_name, which is intended to be a simple string, results in unexpected behavior. This attribute is crucial as it maps totransect_numand is used byechopype. Although the test workflow did not utilize transect-focused stages likecombine_echodata, errors were observed during thecompute_Svstage that was followed byopen_raw. This PR aims to address this by implementing a validation check to ensuregroup_namecontains only valid characters.