I have noticed that the issue of trailing spaces and spaces in between the words in several fields happens during the process of db upgrade as well. In our upgrade to 3.3.12 from 3.0.5 this happened in the department field which causes views to these departments listed more than once ( which in the older version would have been listed only once). I ran update stmts in db to fix it but may be if the patch is in the code permanently that might not happen!

Thanks

Ranju Upadhyay

National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Hi E-Prints developers,

if the user happens to leave trailing spaces in the name field, the 

browse view would display the name once more and ignore that the name 

already exists without trailing space. That's why the creator's browse 

view accumulates doubles and maybe triples of names over time. So how 

about stripping off accidentally input spaces so the repos browse views 

- those generated of fields with freely entered values - are kept clean?

Please tell me if the patch will be applied officially in the next 

version of EPrints, or if I am rather to use the fromform()-callback. In 

my opinion, this issue isn't specific to our repository, hence ...

# in package MetaField::Name ...

# inspired from sub &MetaField::Multipart::form_value_basic

sub form_value_basic

{

         my( $self, $session, $basename ) = @_;

         my $value = 

$self->EPrints::MetaField::Compound::form_value_basic( $session, 

$basename );

         s{^\s+}{}, s{\s+$}{} for values %$value;

         return $value;

}

The patch has been roughly tested.

Kind regards,

Florian