***Note from Migration:***
Original Title was: Add option for whether to ignore leading and trailing spaces in transformers that matches attribute values
In FME there are a lot of transformers that compares values of attributes, as part of their function. e.g. FeatureMerger, Matcher, DuplicateFilter, etc.
These transformers don't all behave consistently, when it comes to whether they ignore the leading and training spaces.
For example FeatureMerger will consider values "a", " a", and " a " the same, in matching key attributes; While DuplicateFilter will consider these values different from one another.
It would be nice to add an option, which allow users to specify whether these spaces should be ignored or not.