# After updates platform, text blocks with a space become empty

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241 "2020-02-12T12:19:08Z")
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### Author: ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241/1 "2020-02-12T12:19:08Z")

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Why do text blocks containing a single space become empty after platform updates? This breaks all algorithms where you need a space, and instead of a space - an empty string!!!

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### Author: ![kartik14](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/kartik14/32/44782_2.png) [@kartik14](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik14)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241/2 "2020-02-12T12:58:48Z")

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## Yes! 😲

I thought that I forgot to insert space in them 😅

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### Author: ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241/3 "2020-02-12T13:49:27Z")

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@actech or @kartik14

Could one of you guys post a screenshot so that others know what you are referencing. That sounds like a pain in the but! Do either of you have workarounds figured out yet?

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### Author: ![kartik14](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/kartik14/32/44782_2.png) [@kartik14](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik14)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241/4 "2020-02-12T14:12:55Z")

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> [@jared](#):
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> Do either of you have workarounds figured out yet?

Yes.  
Tinker your brain, remember you added only spaces, and add them again 😁

Let us think 🤔

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With me, this happened a everywhere I had only spaces -

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/9/0/902c272d40dc6c1514d754ceb18d2df14737ece4.png)

The last block had a space in it 😐

Now, I gotta tinker myself 😅

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### Author: ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/after-updates-platform-text-blocks-with-a-space-become-empty/460241/5 "2024-11-08T11:41:04Z")

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