xmlscript: avoid accessing [0] of an emptry string

Change-Id: I2ad756b07418d3eb93f48374cd7de3bc3db9ce29

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/xmlscript/source/xmldlg_imexp/xmldlg_impmodels.cxx b/xmlscript/source/xmldlg_imexp/xmldlg_impmodels.cxx
index af40e4d51d65..3aed2223ef43 100644
--- a/xmlscript/source/xmldlg_imexp/xmldlg_impmodels.cxx
+++ b/xmlscript/source/xmldlg_imexp/xmldlg_impmodels.cxx
@@ -1064,7 +1064,11 @@ void TextFieldElement::endElement()
     if (getStringAttr( &aValue, "echochar", _xAttributes, _pImport->XMLNS_DIALOGS_UID ) && !aValue.isEmpty() )
     {
         SAL_WARN_IF( aValue.getLength() != 1, "xmlscript.xmldlg", "### more than one character given for echochar!" );
-        sal_Int16 nChar = (sal_Int16)aValue[ 0 ];
+        sal_Int16 nChar = 0;
+        if(!aValue.isEmpty())
+        {
+            nChar = (sal_Int16)aValue[ 0 ];
+        }
         xControlModel->setPropertyValue( "EchoChar", makeAny( nChar ) );
     }