From 4733439ba411536a166e8f4de0517fb27d95805b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Schorn <markus.schorn@windriver.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:51:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 297751: NPE using search.

---
 .../src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/search/PDOMSearchPage.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/search/PDOMSearchPage.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/search/PDOMSearchPage.java
index 8c41cad4c75..f4cbd7d11ec 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/search/PDOMSearchPage.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/search/PDOMSearchPage.java
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ public class PDOMSearchPage extends DialogPage implements ISearchPage {
 					// TODO it might be good to do a selection parse to ensure that
 					// the selection is valid.
 				}
-				if (patternCombo.getText().trim().length() == 0 && previousPatterns.length > 0) {
+				if (patternCombo.getText().trim().length() == 0 && previousPatterns != null && previousPatterns.length > 0) {
 					patternCombo.setText(previousPatterns[0]);
 				}