`getItems(new.magpie(..., "", ...), split = T` results in an error

[codeZeilen]

The expression

getItems(new.magpie("A", "", "C", fill = c(1,2)), split = TRUE) results in the error

Error in tstrsplit(dimnames(x)[[dim]], ".", fixed = TRUE, names = TRUE) : 
  length(names) (= 1) is not equal to length(keep) (= 0).

This is apparently caused by tstrsplit not being able to handle the "" in the second dimension.

[pascal-sauer]

Is "" a valid dim item though @tscheypidi ? Should this work without error?

[tscheypidi]

I would think that "" is not a valid item.

[pascal-sauer]

@codeZeilen please just close the issue then, unless you want to do do something about this anyway (a warning/better error?)?

[codeZeilen]

Hm... I will check to which extent "" appears in our preprocessing to see whether this is actually an issue. If not, then I will leave it as it is, otherwise I would add a better error + maybe another check somewhere to detect and resolve empty strings.