Merge pull request #5406 from cvium/trycleanstring-dont-die-on-me

(cherry picked from commit 0ef8bea1251632a6b94ffc187efe4c36d220fdde)
Signed-off-by: Joshua M. Boniface <joshua@boniface.me>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Emby.Naming/Video/CleanStringParser.cs b/Emby.Naming/Video/CleanStringParser.cs
index 09a0cd189..bd7553a91 100644
--- a/Emby.Naming/Video/CleanStringParser.cs
+++ b/Emby.Naming/Video/CleanStringParser.cs
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ namespace Emby.Naming.Video
 
         private static bool TryClean(string name, Regex expression, out ReadOnlySpan<char> newName)
         {
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
+            {
+                newName = ReadOnlySpan<char>.Empty;
+                return false;
+            }
+
             var match = expression.Match(name);
             int index = match.Index;
             if (match.Success && index != 0)
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ namespace Emby.Naming.Video
                 return true;
             }
 
-            newName = string.Empty;
+            newName = ReadOnlySpan<char>.Empty;
             return false;
         }
     }