X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?p=irspy-moved-to-github.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FZOOM%2FIRSpy%2FUtils.pm;h=233222ed92a1027ac71d580f53237c640ee37606;hp=0fc656aed69792025273e3a51f6a9d1f83b3fabe;hb=e583f8824cff48ab89bfb96f2fb3f4b0941ee9ff;hpb=3d8efa47efc70e2d04f5c8325b2b72f0612f0dc2

diff --git a/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm b/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
index 0fc656a..233222e 100644
--- a/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
+++ b/lib/ZOOM/IRSpy/Utils.pm
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use Scalar::Util;
 use Exporter 'import';
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(utf8param
 		    trimField
+		    utf8paramTrim
 		    isodate
 		    xml_encode 
 		    cql_quote
@@ -83,7 +84,6 @@ sub utf8param {
     return $cooked;
 }
 
-
 # Utility functions follow, exported for use of web UI
 sub utf8param_apache1 {
     my($r, $key, $value) = @_;
@@ -105,7 +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;
 
@@ -115,6 +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