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AWK: Remove spaces before processing each line?

Hi, all
I have a file containing the following data:
Code:
                              name:    PRODUCT_1
                                date:  2010-01-07
   really_long_name:  PRODUCT_ABCDEFG

I want to get the date (it is "2010-01-07" here), I could use the following code to do that:
Code:
awk -F: ' / *date/ { print $2 } '

But the result is not exactly what I want, there're spaces before the date output.
Is it possible to remove spaces before processing each line? so I could use the following code:
Code:
awk -F: ' $1=="date" { print $2 } '

 
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