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### Description
When trying to iterate over a semi-colon separated string list, the s.select
transformation seems to be returning empty string instead of null, so the suggested idea
from here does not work ->
https://www.kamailio.org/wiki/tutorials/faq/main#how_to_iterate_through_the…
It is expected that the access to an invalid index would return null.
### Troubleshooting
avp and var variables were tried and both had the same result.
### Reproduction
Original piece of code is below. The while loop will run until the max_while_loops is
reached.
The "DEBUG" log line will print the loop iterator value and an empty string for
nonexistent values.
```
$var(allowed_headers) = "X-header1; X-header2;";
if (not_empty("$var(allowed_headers)")) {
xlog("L_NOTICE","Forwarding headers:
$avp(allowed_headers)\n");
$var(i) = 0;
while($(var(allowed_headers){s.select,$var(i),;}) != $null)
{
xlog("L_NOTICE","DEBUG: $var(i) -
$(var(allowed_headers){s.select,$var(i),;})\n");
$var(hdr) = $(var(allowed_headers){s.select,$var(i),;}{s.trim});
if (not_empty("$var(hdr)") &&
not_empty("$(hdr($var(hdr)))")) {
xlog("L_NOTICE","Header: $var(hdr):
$(hdr($var(hdr))) allowed\n");
append_hf("$var(hdr): $(hdr($var(hdr)))\r\n");
}
$var(i) = $var(i) + 1;
}
}
```
It is also possible to simulate it by simply doing this:
```
$var(allowed_headers) = "X-header1; X-header2;";
if ($(var(allowed_headers){s.select,100,;}) != $null) {
xlog("L_ERR","THIS IS WRONG :(");
}
```
### Possible Solutions
Other while conditions can be done. but this is the most elegant and is not working....
For example, checking with "not_empty" works, but then we can't actually
have empty values in the semi-colon separated list because it would stop the loop and
entries after that would not be reached....
### Additional Information
* **Kamailio Version** - output of `kamailio -v`
```
# kamailio -v
version: kamailio 5.2.2 (x86_64/linux) 67f967
flags: STATS: Off, USE_TCP, USE_TLS, USE_SCTP, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS, DISABLE_NAGLE,
USE_MCAST, DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MEM, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, Q_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, TLSF_MALLOC,
DBG_SR_MEMORY, USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER,
USE_NAPTR, USE_DST_BLACKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES
ADAPTIVE_WAIT_LOOPS=1024, MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 262144 MAX_URI_SIZE 1024, BUF_SIZE 65535,
DEFAULT PKG_SIZE 8MB
poll method support: poll, epoll_lt, epoll_et, sigio_rt, select.
id: 67f967
compiled on 11:40:41 Mar 11 2019 with gcc 4.8.5
```
* **Operating System**:
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```
# uname -a
Linux voice-conn-kamailio-1 3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 12:24:47 UTC 2017
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
```
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