diff --git a/src/osuparser.cpp b/src/osuparser.cpp
index 3f72697..c7a4805 100644
--- a/src/osuparser.cpp
+++ b/src/osuparser.cpp
@@ -6,13 +6,20 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <iostream>
 
+inline std::string trimString(const std::string &str) {
+    std::string ret(str);
+    ret.erase(0, ret.find_first_not_of(" \n\r\t"));
+    ret.erase(ret.find_last_not_of(" \n\r\t") + 1);
+    return ret;
+}
+
 inline std::string checkAndRemove(const std::string &str, const std::string &prefix) {
     if (!str.starts_with(prefix)) {
         std::cerr << "failure parsing difficulty file on:\n" << str << "\n";
         std::exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
 
-    return str.substr(prefix.length());
+    return trimString(str.substr(prefix.length()));
 }
 
 inline void toLower(std::string &str) {
@@ -50,7 +57,7 @@ inline void toLower(std::string &str) {
 #define VAR_GENERIC(section, name, ...) \
     namePascalCased = #name;\
     namePascalCased[0] = std::toupper(namePascalCased[0]);\
-    namePascalCased.append(": ");\
+    namePascalCased.append(":");\
     if (line.starts_with(namePascalCased)) {\
         __VA_ARGS__\
         ret section.name = value;\