--- /Metaphone.java	2023-07-05 02:29:07.682152847 +0200
+++ /Codec-1/src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/Metaphone.java	2023-07-05 02:29:07.682152847 +0200
@@ -81,8 +81,9 @@
     public String metaphone(String txt) {
         boolean hard = false ;
         if ((txt == null) || (txt.length() == 0)) {
-            return "" ;
-        }
+ 
+return ""; 
+ 
         // single character is itself
         if (txt.length() == 1) {
             return txt.toUpperCase(java.util.Locale.ENGLISH) ;
