diff --git a/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php b/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php
index 6701b70..1e6cc9f 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php
@@ -4246,7 +4246,7 @@ class tslib_cObj {
 		$chars = intval($options[0]);
 		$absChars = abs($chars);
 		$replacementForEllipsis = trim($options[1]);
-		$crop2space = $options[2] === '1' ? TRUE : FALSE;
+		$crop2space = trim($options[2]) === '1' ? TRUE : FALSE;
 
 		// Split $content into an array (even items in the array are outside the tags, odd numbers are tag-blocks).
 		$tags= 'a|b|blockquote|body|div|em|font|form|h1|h2|h3|h4|h5|h6|i|li|map|ol|option|p|pre|sub|sup|select|span|strong|table|thead|tbody|tfoot|td|textarea|tr|u|ul|br|hr|img|input|area|link';