Apex: Removing leading and trailing blanks

Hi,
when observing end users working with my little apex application I noticed the input of leading and trailing blanks in a report search field. What do you recommend for removing this undesired input?
I tried an ltrim(rtrim(:p1_searchfield)) in the report SQL query - the result is fine.
But I have not found a way to keep the higlighting of the search word in the result set. There is a "highlight" property in the report field attributes dialog. But it looks like there is no way to enter any trim funtion over there. So the highlighting of matches does not work if there is a leading or trailing blank.
Any ideas?
Thanks & Cu
Walter

Walter,
I would use an "after submit" computation on :p1_searchfield
trim(:p1_filter)This way you won't have to change your select statement and the highlight term.
~Dietmar.

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