Uninformative error if partition file ends with a blank line

[TheWhyofFry]

Hi there

I found a small bug when using partition files that contain a blank line at the end. raxml-ng terminates with an uninformative error message. While fixing the partition file is fine, it would be helpful if the error message hinted at a malformed partition file. A blank line in the partition file may not be obvious to the user. Apologies in advance if I missed/omitted something.

RAxML-NG v. 0.5.0 BETA released on 10.09.2017 by The Exelixis Lab. Authors: Alexey Kozlov, Alexandros Stamatakis, Diego Darriba, Tomas Flouri, Benoit Morel. Latest version: https://github.com/amkozlov/raxml-ng Questions/problems/suggestions? Please visit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/raxml

WARNING: This is a BETA release, please use at your own risk!

RAxML-NG was called as follows:

raxml-ng-mpi --threads 4 --evaluate --msa ./RT.B.DE.nuc.aligned.fixed.fsa --tree RTIQ.bllenfix.nuc.treefile --model rt.b.de.raxmlng.part --brlen scaled --prefix rt.b.de.nuc.raxml

Analysis options: run mode: Evaluate tree likelihood start tree(s): user random seed: 1513523851 tip-inner: ON pattern compression: ON per-rate scalers: OFF site repeats: OFF branch lengths: ML estimate (proportional) SIMD kernels: AVX2 parallelization: PTHREADS (4 threads)

[00:00:00] Reading alignment from file: ./RT.B.DE.nuc.aligned.fixed.fsa [00:00:00] Loaded alignment with 23403 taxa and 1377 sites

ERROR: h6�

[amkozlov]

@TheWhyofFry: thanks for reporting! However, I believe this bug has been already fixed. Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest RAxML-NG v0.5.1:

https://github.com/amkozlov/raxml-ng/releases/tag/0.5.1

Thanks!

[TheWhyofFry]

Indeed it does work. Sorry I missed that!

[amkozlov]

No problem, thanks for confirmation. Closing this issue.