Fix string_slice with empty value

Currently, if you don't set any value for a StringSliceVar, it will
end-up failing with an EOF error. It fails because the CSV parser for
the value can't read anything.

Special case when the string is empty to return an empty list.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/string_slice_test.go b/string_slice_test.go
index c7fdc70..ed7cbfc 100644
--- a/string_slice_test.go
+++ b/string_slice_test.go
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ func TestEmptySS(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestEmptySSValue(t *testing.T) {
+	var ss []string
+	f := setUpSSFlagSet(&ss)
+	err := f.Parse([]string{"--ss="})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected no error; got", err)
+	}
+
+	getSS, err := f.GetStringSlice("ss")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal("got an error from GetStringSlice():", err)
+	}
+	if len(getSS) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("got ss %v with len=%d but expected length=0", getSS, len(getSS))
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSS(t *testing.T) {
 	var ss []string
 	f := setUpSSFlagSet(&ss)