[Bug]: White spaces not being stripped when creating rules

[need4swede]

Verified issue does not already exist?

• I have searched and found no existing issue

Is this related to GoCardless, Simplefin or another bank-sync provider?

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What happened?

I noticed that certain imported payees, mainly PayPal transactions, have excessive white spaces in their names.
For example: Paypal Inst Xfer Adob

When creating a rule, if you write: Paypal Inst Xfer Adob, it doesn't recognize it. You have to include the white spaces.

Suggestion: Trim excessive white spaces from input strings to avoid mismatch

What error did you receive?

No response

Where are you hosting Actual?

Docker

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Firefox

Operating System

Windows 11

[MatissJanis]

👋 Thanks for the idea, but it's not really a bug report. It's more of a feature request to normalize the imported payee names. Which will definitely be a breaking change that would break existing rules people have created. So I'm not entirely sold on introducing this.

I'll close this bug report now, but feel free to open a new feature request.