🐞 Empty fields result in extra commas in monster statblocks 5e

[SamBardwell]

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Expected Behavior

When using template monsters, the commas should be ommited if there are empty fields. For example,

source: 5e SRD
size: Small
type: beast
subtype: "" <--- this should not be rendered in the list, and should be ommited
alignment: unaligned
... omitted the rest of the code as it does not pertain to the issue

This should have rendered like the example in the Bestiary page. Like below,

However, it does not, at least I cannot figure out if their is a custom command I need to put in order to omit these commas.

Current behaviour

Empty fields result in extra commas in monster statblocks, example below when viewing "Octopus".

In bestiary section of the website, the documentation points out that the octopus will look like this,

However, when using the plugin, it does not.

Reproduction

There are two ways you can reproduce this,

1. Go to the Plugin settings and view any monster that has a missing field, in my example I used Octopus. You can view what this will look like and see the extra commas.
2. Import the preset monster in a note through the presented documentation in the Bestiary site. Example below,

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Obsidian Version Check

1.8.10

Plugin Version

4.9.1

Confirmation

• I have disabled all other plugins and the issue still persists.

Possible solution

I am not sure what under the hood looks like for this yet. Or if maybe I am just having a weird quirk. But I think you could do something like this,

let properties = [monster.size, monster.type, monster.alignment];
let filtered = properties.filter(prop => prop && prop.trim() !== "");
let output = filtered.join(", ");

Where you can filter out empty or whitespace only properties before joining them.

[SamBardwell]

Something to add, I know if I custom create a monster, I can simply remove the fields I am not using, and this will solve the issue. However, this issue is where if I import monsters or use preset monsters that do not do this, they will have the extra commas. So another example would be Ankheg having this issue.