From 48bc2bf06b09887fd46ed3b41761ecc42b0a2c2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephane Landelle <slandelle+github@excilys.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:32:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Trim on ConditionStatement, not on eval

---
 .../com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayEvalFilter.java    | 2 +-
 .../jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java      | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayEvalFilter.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayEvalFilter.java
index ebc81155..b00342a7 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayEvalFilter.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayEvalFilter.java
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public class ArrayEvalFilter extends PathTokenFilter {
 
         private ConditionStatement(String field, String operator, String expected) {
             this.field = field;
-            this.operator = operator;
+            this.operator = operator.trim();
             this.expected = expected;
 
             if(this.expected.startsWith("'")){
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java
index 6374a2df..243c22af 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ public class ExpressionEvaluator {
 
     public static <T> boolean eval(T actual, String comparator, String expected) {
 
-        comparator = comparator.trim();
-
         if (actual instanceof Long) {
 
             Long a = (Long) actual;