Changes group name check to warning

mothur · 184ec895ca534cf01c70abaa2f087f67da69ecc5 · mothur-westcott committed Aug 4, 2016 · Aug 4, 2016 · 184ec89
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commit 184ec895ca534cf01c70abaa2f087f67da69ecc5
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+1 −1 source/mothurout.cpp
diff --git a/source/mothurout.cpp b/source/mothurout.cpp
@@ -2993,7 +2993,7 @@ bool MothurOut::checkGroupName(string name) {
         }
         
         if (!goodName) {
-            mothurOut("\n[ERROR]: group " + name + " contains illegal characters in the name. Group names cannot include :, -, or / characters.  The ':' character is a special character used in trees. Using ':' will result in your tree being unreadable by tree reading software.  The '-' character is a special character used by mothur to parse group names.  Using the '-' character will prevent you from selecting groups. The '/' character will created unreadable filenames when mothur includes the group in an output filename. Quitting. \n\n"); control_pressed = true;
+            mothurOut("\n[WARNING]: group " + name + " contains illegal characters in the name. Group names should not include :, -, or / characters.  The ':' character is a special character used in trees. Using ':' will result in your tree being unreadable by tree reading software.  The '-' character is a special character used by mothur to parse group names.  Using the '-' character will prevent you from selecting groups. The '/' character will created unreadable filenames when mothur includes the group in an output filename.  \n\n");
         }
         
         return goodName;