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diff --git a/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm b/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
index dfe4e99..0fc656a 100644
--- a/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
+++ b/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# $Id: Utils.pm,v 1.38 2009-04-15 18:16:45 wosch Exp $
 
 package ZOOM::IRSpy::Utils;
 
@@ -10,6 +9,7 @@ use Scalar::Util;
 
 use Exporter 'import';
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(utf8param
+		    trimField
 		    isodate
 		    xml_encode 
 		    cql_quote
@@ -105,6 +105,15 @@ sub isodate {
 		   $year+1900, $mon+1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec);
 }
 
+# strips whitespaces and start and ends of a field
+sub trimField {
+    my $field  = shift;
+
+    $field =~ s/^\s+//;
+    $field =~ s/\s+$//;
+
+    return $field;
+}
 
 # 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