From 0193800c1e507cd6fd2e38ff44ab6c2499b9217e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pragmatic Software <pragma78@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 23:37:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove leading spaces when replacing empty factoid variable

---
 PBot/Factoids.pm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PBot/Factoids.pm b/PBot/Factoids.pm
index 7037aff6..e04e6a09 100644
--- a/PBot/Factoids.pm
+++ b/PBot/Factoids.pm
@@ -482,7 +482,11 @@ sub expand_factoid_vars {
           $fixed_a = ucfirst $fixed_a if $a =~ m/^A/;
           $action =~ s/$a\$$v$modifier/$fixed_a $mylist[$line]/;
         } else {
-          $action =~ s/\$$v$modifier/$mylist[$line]/;
+          if (not length $mylist[$line]) {
+            $action =~ s/\s+\$$v$modifier//;
+          } else {
+            $action =~ s/\$$v$modifier/$mylist[$line]/;
+          }
         }
       }
     }