From a8041fef4f011566322086550540d32fb4311a09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iaforek <arkadiusz@jaworski.pl>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 12:17:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-838 Tiny change to keep code consistant. Return null or
 empty.

---
 core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/StringHelper.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/StringHelper.java b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/StringHelper.java
index 93ce1b684e..ad2a0b3419 100644
--- a/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/StringHelper.java
+++ b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/StringHelper.java
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ public class StringHelper {
     public static String removeLastCharRegexOptional(String s) {
         return Optional.ofNullable(s)
             .map(str -> str.replaceAll(".$", ""))
-            .orElse(null);
+            .orElse(s);
     }
 }