diff --git a/code/__HELPERS/type2type.dm b/code/__HELPERS/type2type.dm
index 7df96c3da2..60b5d82940 100644
--- a/code/__HELPERS/type2type.dm
+++ b/code/__HELPERS/type2type.dm
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
 	return .
 
 //Splits the text of a file at seperator and returns them in a list.
-/world/proc/file2list(filename, seperator="\n")
+/world/proc/file2list(filename, seperator="\n", trim = TRUE)
+	if (trim)
+		return splittext(trim(file2text(filename)),seperator)
 	return splittext(file2text(filename),seperator)
 
 //Turns a direction into text
@@ -551,4 +553,4 @@
 				return /atom
 			else
 				return /datum
-	return text2path(copytext(string_type, 1, last_slash))
\ No newline at end of file
+	return text2path(copytext(string_type, 1, last_slash))