diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 77818943..4fe65d39 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -25003,3 +25003,6 @@
 	the 'Update Library Metadata' attribute was not selected.
 2025-07-01 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Incremented the pacakge version to 4.3.0int10.
+2025-07-01 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Fixed a bug in the PyPAD service that could cause resolution of the
+	'%d()' wildcard to return dnagling whitespace.
diff --git a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
index 07b28b38..cefc9fd2 100644
--- a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
+++ b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ class Update(object):
                 else:
                     pat+=s+' '
             dt_pattern=pat
-
+            dt_pattern=dt_pattern.strip()
 
         except AttributeError:
             return ''