Merge branch 'develop' into spike/JAL-4047/JAL-4048_columns_in_sequenceID

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / bin / ArgsParser.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/ArgsParser.java b/src/jalview/bin/ArgsParser.java
index c927f1f..ab33542 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/bin/ArgsParser.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/ArgsParser.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public class ArgsParser
     for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
     {
       String arg = args[i].trim();
-      if (arg.charAt(0) == '-')
+      if (arg.length() > 0 && arg.charAt(0) == '-')
       {
         arg = arg.substring(1);
       }