From 85fead141000ed0257f7a28ea2c4e7bb7106491a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avik Sengupta <avik@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:16:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bug 34435 , submitted by Nick Burch. Thanks

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@353645 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherSpRecord.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherSpRecord.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherSpRecord.java
index e35c510f44..93426115d2 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherSpRecord.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherSpRecord.java
@@ -154,7 +154,10 @@ public class EscherSpRecord
         result.append( ( flags & FLAG_BACKGROUND ) != 0 ? "|BACKGROUND" : "" );
         result.append( ( flags & FLAG_HASSHAPETYPE ) != 0 ? "|HASSHAPETYPE" : "" );
 
-        result.deleteCharAt(0);
+        //need to check, else blows up on some records - bug 34435
+        if(result.length() > 0) {
+            result.deleteCharAt(0);
+        }
         return result.toString();
     }