def clean_row_item(item):
    # We just want to make sure we return None for empty values. By default
    # flimp will ignore tags with None as a value (this can be overridden)
    value = item.strip()
    if value:
        return value
    else:
        return None
reads in a string that contains a number of substrings, each
dataset/ETHPy150Open fluidinfo/flimp/examples/import_utils.py/clean_row_item--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open ufora/ufora/ufora/distributed/ServerUtils/SimpleServer.py/substringUnpacker