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diff --git a/perl/DXUtil.pm b/perl/DXUtil.pm
index 7be97ebf..9264d505 100644
--- a/perl/DXUtil.pm
+++ b/perl/DXUtil.pm
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ require Exporter;
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 @EXPORT = qw(atime ztime cldate cldatetime slat slong yesno promptf 
 			 parray parraypairs shellregex readfilestr writefilestr
-             print_all_fields cltounix iscallsign
+             print_all_fields cltounix iscallsign unpad
             );
 
 @month = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);
@@ -279,3 +279,17 @@ sub writefilestr
 		$fh->close;
 	}
 }
+
+# remove leading and trailing spaces from an input string
+sub unpad
+{
+	my $s = shift;
+	$s =~ s/\s+$//;
+	$s =~ s/^\s+//;
+	return $s;
+}
+
+
+
+
+