Index: public_html/sites/all/modules/acdx_references/acdx_entityreference/acdx_entityreference.module
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
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--- public_html/sites/all/modules/acdx_references/acdx_entityreference/acdx_entityreference.module	(revision )
+++ public_html/sites/all/modules/acdx_references/acdx_entityreference/acdx_entityreference.module	(revision )
@@ -225,10 +225,11 @@
       $field = field_info_field($element['#field_name']);
       $field_instance = field_info_instance($element['#entity_type'], $element['#field_name'], $element['#bundle']);
       foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
+        $match = trim($match);
         if (preg_match('/\((\d+)\)"?$/', $match, $id_matches)) {
           $value[]['target_id'] = $id_matches[1];
         }
-        else {
+        elseif (empty($match)) {
           $target_id = _acdx_entityreference_create($field['settings']['target_type'], $field_instance['widget']['settings']['create_bundle'], $match);
 
           $value[] = array(