check on sequence length

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
index 4687116..ec798f1 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ public class Sequence implements SequenceI
     // JBPNote - left to user to pad the result here (TODO:Decide on this policy)
     if (start >= sequence.length)
     {
-      System.out.println("DOES THIS GET CALLED???");
+      return new char[0];
     }
 
     if (end >= sequence.length)