Previously these two dialplan functions would issue warnings and
return failure when an empty string is used as the argument. Now
they will not issue a warning and will successfully return an
empty string.

ASTERISK-23911 #close
Reported by: Matt Jordan
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3745/
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