110dc66a0ea7bc9968f1985810ac83c80473f11b
galt
  Tue Apr 19 04:30:31 2011 -0700
adding tolerance of leading spaces as required by a few naughty trackDb.ra files
diff --git src/lib/common.c src/lib/common.c
index 5ed0bbd..0c263a5 100644
--- src/lib/common.c
+++ src/lib/common.c
@@ -981,38 +981,38 @@
 void *slPairFindVal(struct slPair *list, char *name)
 /* Return value associated with name in list, or NULL if not found. */
 {
 struct slPair *el = slPairFind(list, name);
 if (el == NULL)
     return NULL;
 return el->val;
 }
 
 struct slPair *slPairListFromString(char *str,boolean respectQuotes)
 // Return slPair list parsed from list in string like:  [name1=val1 name2=val2 ...]
 // if respectQuotes then string can have double quotes: [name1="val 1" "name 2"=val2 ...]
 //    resulting pair strips quotes: {name1}={val 1},{name 2}={val2}
 // Returns NULL if parse error.  Free this up with slPairFreeValsAndList.
 {
-if (isEmpty(str))
+char *s = skipLeadingSpaces(str);  // Would like to remove this and tighten up the standard someday.
+if (isEmpty(s))
     return NULL;
 
 struct slPair *list = NULL;
 char name[1024];
 char val[1024];
 char buf[1024];
-char *s = str;
 bool inQuote = FALSE;
 char *b = buf;
 char sep = '=';
 char c = ' ';
 int mode = 0;
 while(1)
     {
     c = *s++;
     if (mode == 0 || mode == 2) // reading name or val
 	{
 	boolean term = FALSE;
 	if (respectQuotes && b == buf && !inQuote && c == '"')
 	    inQuote = TRUE;
 	else if (inQuote && c == '"')
 	    term = TRUE;