Remove unnecessary branches in utilstrencodings string constructors.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/utilstrencodings.cpp b/src/utilstrencodings.cpp
index feaf1a5e8b..2fabb8cf7a 100644
--- a/src/utilstrencodings.cpp
+++ b/src/utilstrencodings.cpp
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ std::vector<unsigned char> DecodeBase64(const char* p, bool* pfInvalid)
 std::string DecodeBase64(const std::string& str)
 {
     std::vector<unsigned char> vchRet = DecodeBase64(str.c_str());
-    return (vchRet.size() == 0) ? std::string() : std::string((const char*)vchRet.data(), vchRet.size());
+    return std::string((const char*)vchRet.data(), vchRet.size());
 }
 
 std::string EncodeBase32(const unsigned char* pch, size_t len)
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ std::vector<unsigned char> DecodeBase32(const char* p, bool* pfInvalid)
 std::string DecodeBase32(const std::string& str)
 {
     std::vector<unsigned char> vchRet = DecodeBase32(str.c_str());
-    return (vchRet.size() == 0) ? std::string() : std::string((const char*) vchRet.data(), vchRet.size());
+    return std::string((const char*)vchRet.data(), vchRet.size());
 }
 
 static bool ParsePrechecks(const std::string& str)