From 8d06740ff263af9f6b2666d545cdc83621387307 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kris Hollingsworth <kristhenerd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 17:58:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Minor bug fix -- consistently uses .trim() in breakstrings.js

---
 .../src/components/commonsugar/breakstrings.js                | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/doenetml-worker-javascript/src/components/commonsugar/breakstrings.js b/packages/doenetml-worker-javascript/src/components/commonsugar/breakstrings.js
index 19cae8e752..caa7a7328a 100644
--- a/packages/doenetml-worker-javascript/src/components/commonsugar/breakstrings.js
+++ b/packages/doenetml-worker-javascript/src/components/commonsugar/breakstrings.js
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ export function breakEmbeddedStringsIntoParensPieces({
             continue;
         }
 
-        let s = component;
+        let s = component.trim();
 
         let beginInd = 0;
 
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ export function breakIntoPiecesBySpacesOutsideParens({ componentList }) {
             continue;
         }
 
-        let s = component;
+        let s = component.trim();
 
         let beginInd = 0;