Bug in FindAGrave Template with whitespace before grave id.

Question

I've found a bug with the Template:FindAGrave where if you put a space before the memorial ID, the link created omits the grave id.

{{FindAGrave | 124097047}}

Whereas this does work:

{{FindAGrave|124097047}}

Other templates like Template:DateGuess accept the whitespace around arguments without breaking.  Please copy the solution from them to here.

Comments

Maybe its because its an URL you get problems. 

Easy solution dont add Space. 

When I did the template in Wikitree. Wikitree used an early version of the Wikimedia software that miss good string functions like a Trim function. I am not part of doing templates anymore so maybe someone else is updated of the status of Wikitree and maybe can fix it....

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Easy solution don't add Space. 

 

Not only don't add, make sure there is no space. Sometimes they sneak in even if we don't add them. 

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Yep. I copy and paste the memorial number to avoid typos, but in Safari, when I paste the number Safari inserts a space between the pipe character and the number. In both Safari and Firefox, if I copy the number from the Memorial ID in the upper gray section of the FaG page rather than from the number in the URL, a leading space is copied as well. Once I figured out this was happening, I knew to look for and trim the space, but I'm sure there's plenty of profiles that need the space removed from the template; I'm leaving those for the bot.

Answer 1

Unnamed parameters are not trimmed for leading and trailing spaces, so don't use the space before and after the number. I do intend to program EditBOT to correct such cases, but it is better to not add a blank.

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