new function utf8paramTrim()

[irspy-moved-to-github.git] / lib / ZOOM / IRSpy / Utils.pm

diff --git a/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm b/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
index 5c01a7b..233222e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
+++ b/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use Scalar::Util;
 
 use Exporter 'import';
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(utf8param
+                   trimField
+                   utf8paramTrim
                    isodate
                    xml_encode 
                    cql_quote
@@ -82,7 +84,6 @@ sub utf8param {
     return $cooked;
 }
 
-
 # Utility functions follow, exported for use of web UI
 sub utf8param_apache1 {
     my($r, $key, $value) = @_;
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ sub isodate {
                   $year+1900, $mon+1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec);
 }
 
-# strips whitespaces and start and ends of a field
+# strips whitespaces at start and ends of a field
 sub trimField {
     my $field  = shift;
 
@@ -114,6 +115,17 @@ sub trimField {
     return $field;
 }
 
+# utf8param() with trim
+sub utf8paramTrim {
+    my $result = utf8param(@_);
+
+    if (defined $result) {
+       $result = trimField($result);   
+    }
+
+    return $result;
+}
+
 # I can't -- just can't, can't, can't -- believe that this function
 # isn't provided by one of the core XML modules.  But the evidence all
 # says that it's not: among other things, XML::Generator and