From 97a4816842e7863970adbbdcb1da463aac05ced9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Collin M. Barrett" <collinbarrett@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 13:58:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] trim leading and trailing whitespace from rules

---
 .../SnapshotService/RawRuleLinterExtensions.cs             | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/FilterLists.Services/SnapshotService/RawRuleLinterExtensions.cs b/src/FilterLists.Services/SnapshotService/RawRuleLinterExtensions.cs
index c70e73521..fd1f01dc3 100644
--- a/src/FilterLists.Services/SnapshotService/RawRuleLinterExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/FilterLists.Services/SnapshotService/RawRuleLinterExtensions.cs
@@ -5,12 +5,19 @@ public static class RawRuleLinterExtensions
         //TODO: resolve issues and/or track dropped rules
         public static string LintStringForMySql(this string rule)
         {
+            rule = rule.TrimLeadingAndTrailingWhitespace();
             rule = rule.TrimSingleBackslashFromEnd();
             rule = rule.DropIfContainsBackslashSingleQuote();
             rule = rule.DropIfTooLong();
             return rule;
         }
 
+        private static string TrimLeadingAndTrailingWhitespace(this string rule)
+        {
+            char[] charsToTrim = {' ', '\t'};
+            return rule.Trim(charsToTrim);
+        }
+
         private static string TrimSingleBackslashFromEnd(this string rule)
         {
             if (rule != null)