From 8f0237531f5d6c265638568f1e50c0cb941cb611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sandeep Mistry <s.mistry@arduino.cc>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:17:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Serial Plotter: Don't try to parse line containing only
 trimmable characters

---
 app/src/processing/app/SerialPlotter.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/SerialPlotter.java b/app/src/processing/app/SerialPlotter.java
index 336cbd43e..b234a3e4d 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/SerialPlotter.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/SerialPlotter.java
@@ -289,6 +289,10 @@ public class SerialPlotter extends AbstractMonitor {
       messageBuffer.delete(0, linebreak + 1);
 
       line = line.trim();
+      if (line.length() == 0) {
+        // the line only contained trimmable characters
+        continue;
+      }
       String[] parts = line.split("[, \t]+");
       if(parts.length == 0) {
         continue;