From 58aab48ab294cdbea853b796f99f92e15b2570b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Wiederhake <BenWiederhake.GitHub@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 20:51:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fuzz: also generate the empty string sometimes

Inspired by #6167, #6175, and the observation that 'echo hello "" world | hd' outputs extra spaces.
---
 fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_common.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_common.rs b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_common.rs
index cf56268d7..6c261cf81 100644
--- a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_common.rs
+++ b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_common.rs
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ pub fn generate_random_string(max_length: usize) -> String {
     let invalid_utf8 = [0xC3, 0x28]; // Invalid UTF-8 sequence
     let mut result = String::new();
 
-    for _ in 0..rng.gen_range(1..=max_length) {
+    for _ in 0..rng.gen_range(0..=max_length) {
         if rng.gen_bool(0.9) {
             let ch = valid_utf8.choose(&mut rng).unwrap();
             result.push(*ch);