From 65a151e0357c07fe395c9c93863aec9baba7f707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kurt Hindenburg <kurt.hindenburg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:33:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] simplify determining empty string

---
 src/Filter.cpp | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Filter.cpp b/src/Filter.cpp
index 8442b960..eff72a38 100644
--- a/src/Filter.cpp
+++ b/src/Filter.cpp
@@ -335,8 +335,7 @@ void RegExpFilter::process()
 
     // ignore any regular expressions which match an empty string.
     // otherwise the while loop below will run indefinitely
-    static const QString emptyString("");
-    if (_searchText.exactMatch(emptyString))
+    if (_searchText.isEmpty())
         return;
 
     while (pos >= 0) {