The previous commit would skip *all* spaces. This is the right fix.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/sc/source/core/tool/stringutil.cxx b/sc/source/core/tool/stringutil.cxx
index 7fcae1e3adc1..cb550585b081 100644
--- a/sc/source/core/tool/stringutil.cxx
+++ b/sc/source/core/tool/stringutil.cxx
@@ -63,17 +63,24 @@ bool ScStringUtil::parseSimpleNumber(
     sal_Int32 nPosDSep = -1, nPosGSep = -1;
     sal_uInt32 nDigitCount = 0;
 
-    for (sal_Int32 i = 0; i < n; ++i, ++p)
+    sal_Int32 i = 0;
+
+    // Skip preceding spaces.
+    for (i = 0; i < n; ++i, ++p)
+    {
+        sal_Unicode c = *p;
+        if (c != 0x0020 && c != 0x00A0)
+            // first non-space character.  Exit.
+            break;
+    }
+
+    for (; i < n; ++i, ++p)
     {
         sal_Unicode c = *p;
         if (c == 0x00A0)
             // unicode space to ascii space
             c = 0x0020;
 
-        if (c == 0x0020)
-            // Skip preceding spaces.
-            continue;
-
         if (sal_Unicode('0') <= c && c <= sal_Unicode('9'))
         {
             // this is a digit.