And the truth of it is that it's like a 1 or 2 line data sanitization fix in most languages nowadays to normalize the data value to the expected one. 1) strip

And the truth of it is that it's like a 1 or 2 line data sanitization fix in most languages nowadays to normalize the data value to the expected one. 1) strip whitespace off the front and backend. 2) eliminate unexpected characters in the middle of the string like - or spaces.