shellvar crashes

[jeannegreulich]

Shellvar crashes when trying to create a new variable line and a comment for it exists that has no value.
I am tring to update the value for CRYPTO_POLICY in /etc/sysconfig/sshd that is installed with EL8. It has
the line
"# CRYPTO_POLICY="

And when the provider reads in the comment it crashes because it tries to do a split on the value and the value =nil.
There does not seem to be a way to skip the reading of the comment.