From bba4068e8eef0a40c524396157de1656f785e141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tcofoegbu <tcnofoegbu@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:29:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-1907 bugfix for NPE while parsing a features file

---
 src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
index ff0f0cc..aec0540 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
@@ -260,6 +260,10 @@ public class IdentifyFile
           {
             break;
           }
+          if (data == null)
+          {
+            break;
+          }
         }
 
         if (data.indexOf("{\"") > -1)
-- 
1.7.10.2