DateFormat function inserts space in front !

Question

Hi to all,
I recently started a brand new project in CF9.0.1 (hotfix 1 in place).
In one of my main components I have a function as per the following :
    <cffunction name="DateFormatBE"
                     access="public"
                     returntype="string"
                     description="Formats a given string to Belgian date format, returns a blanco when no date is given">
        <cfargument name="myDate"
                           type="string"
                          required="false"
                          default=""
                          hint="the string to date format">
       <cfscript>
            if (Len(Trim(ARGUMENTS.myDate))) {
                if (! IsDate(ARGUMENTS.myDate)) {
                    ARGUMENTS.myDate = ParseDateBE(ARGUMENTS.myDate);
                    if (! Len(Trim(ARGUMENTS.myDate)))
                        return "";
                return Trim(LSDateFormat(ARGUMENTS.myDate,"DD/MM/YYYY"));
            } else
                return "";
        </cfscript>
    </cffunction>
    <cffunction name="ParseDateBE"
                    returntype="any"
                    access="public"
                    output="false"
                    hint="Parses a given string to a date object (dd/mm/yyyy).">
        <cfargument name="myDate"
                            required="No"
                            type="string"
                            default=""
                            hint="the string to parse of format (dd/mm/yyyy)">
        <cfscript>
            if (ListLen(ARGUMENTS.myDate,"/") == 3) // expects two slashes
                return CreateDate(ListGetAt(ARGUMENTS.myDate,3,"/"), ListGetAt(ARGUMENTS.myDate,2,"/"),ListGetAt(ARGUMENTS.myDate,1,"/"));
            else
                return "";
        </cfscript>
    </cffunction>
As of version 9.0.1 I always receive an extra space in front if I output a date as following :
     <cfoutput>
          <input type="Text"
                    name="SomeName"
                    value="#DateFormatBE(Now())#" >
     </cfoutput>
However, this does seem to work as expected :
     <cfdump var="#DateFormatBE(Now())#">
Is this a known bug or am I missing something?
Thanks for reading!
Bert.

Answer 1

I do have put output="false" in my component tag definition, but that seems to do just nothing...
When one instantiates a CFC, any code outside any <cffunction> within the CFC file is executed.  That could generate spurious whitespace if you don't have OUTPUT="FALSE" on the CFCOMPONENT tag.
Adam