From cacbedd352bebf4f6749b601d5763a258105e325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:31:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix index out of bounds exception when separator is the empty
 string

git-svn-id: http://google-refine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2354 7d457c2a-affb-35e4-300a-418c747d4874
---
 .../src/com/google/refine/importers/SeparatorBasedImporter.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/main/src/com/google/refine/importers/SeparatorBasedImporter.java b/main/src/com/google/refine/importers/SeparatorBasedImporter.java
index 1c2173e83..f1cfe4710 100644
--- a/main/src/com/google/refine/importers/SeparatorBasedImporter.java
+++ b/main/src/com/google/refine/importers/SeparatorBasedImporter.java
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public class SeparatorBasedImporter extends TabularImportingParserBase {
     ) {
         // String lineSeparator = JSONUtilities.getString(options, "lineSeparator", "\n");
         String sep = JSONUtilities.getString(options, "separator", "\t");
-        if (sep == null) {
+        if (sep == null || "".equals(sep)) {
             sep = "\t";
         }
         boolean processQuotes = JSONUtilities.getBoolean(options, "processQuotes", true);