From 7f8817295bd8a674268624e21471049da1788591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grahame Grieve <grahameg@gmail.ccom>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 18:09:26 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NPE

---
 .../src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/utilities/Utilities.java         | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org.hl7.fhir.utilities/src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/utilities/Utilities.java b/org.hl7.fhir.utilities/src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/utilities/Utilities.java
index 7710748d1..e6b735e45 100644
--- a/org.hl7.fhir.utilities/src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/utilities/Utilities.java
+++ b/org.hl7.fhir.utilities/src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/utilities/Utilities.java
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ public class Utilities {
 
 
   public static String stripBOM(String string) {
-    return string.replace("\uFEFF", "");
+    return string == null ? null : string.replace("\uFEFF", "");
   }