From 7726650eaa5a04d959d328b1940432f44b0ddeb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ldy <1913292237@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:40:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Bug fixed: ignored blank-space elements in the middle name
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---
 01_EJDE_spider/ejde_main.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/01_EJDE_spider/ejde_main.py b/01_EJDE_spider/ejde_main.py
index 9fd79ce..1876b22 100644
--- a/01_EJDE_spider/ejde_main.py
+++ b/01_EJDE_spider/ejde_main.py
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ def process_article(title, article_url):
                         "from_article": article_id,
                         "firstname": name[0],
                         "lastname": name[-1],
-                        "middlename": name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(name) > 2 else None,
+                        "middlename": [elem.strip() for elem in name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(elem.strip()) > 0] if len(name) > 2 else None,
                         "affiliation": [{
                             "year": volume,
                             "affiliation": affiliation,
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ def process_article(title, article_url):
                         "from_article": article_id,
                         "firstname": name[0],
                         "lastname": name[-1],
-                        "middlename": name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(name) > 2 else None,
+                        "middlename": [elem.strip() for elem in name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(elem.strip()) > 0] if len(name) > 2 else None,
                         "affiliation": [{
                             "year": volume,
                             "affiliation": affiliation,