From 743a6e634ef6509a990b3612d9806a9280a99725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Gomes <victorgomes@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:43:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] src: fix empty string access in dotenv

---
 src/node_dotenv.cc | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/node_dotenv.cc b/src/node_dotenv.cc
index 53faf461bb42f2..e884b88c3f8449 100644
--- a/src/node_dotenv.cc
+++ b/src/node_dotenv.cc
@@ -118,9 +118,7 @@ void Dotenv::ParseContent(const std::string_view content) {
     // Remove trailing whitespaces
     value.erase(value.find_last_not_of(" \t") + 1);
 
-    const char maybeQuote = value.front();
-
-    if (maybeQuote == '"') {
+    if (!value.empty() && value.front() == '"') {
       value = std::regex_replace(value, std::regex("\\\\n"), "\n");
       value = std::regex_replace(value, std::regex("\\\\r"), "\r");
     }