cf3 (3.0.2) readstring array with no values (after comments)

Greetings. A little issue with using readstringlist. It seems the list
gets populated with garbage characters when the resulting list should
contain nothing. I tried to track it down, but I think Mark would find
this one within minutes.

Consider the following example:

##########################################################################

body common control {

    bundlesequence =3D> { "readstring_test" };

}

##########################################################################


bundle agent readstring_test {

  vars:

    "entry" slist =3D> { readstringlist("/tmp/testfile","#.*","[\n]",200,40=
00) };

  reports:
    Yr2009::
       "entry:$(entry)";
}

##########################################################################


If /tmp/testfile contain only comments:

############################################
# comments
#
# more comments
#
# boy, do I love comments
#
############################################

The resulting report looks like:

cf3    =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
cf3    reports in bundle readstring_test (1)
cf3    =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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