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I am importing data, first through Contact Import, then Contribution Import.  I am using an External ID to put the data together.

I create the External ID with the email address and a prefix.  For instance prefix-email@example.co.uk .  The External ID has to be truncated because of length constrictions.  There are a few instance where this gets truncated at a period (.) creating something like this:

prefix-emailaddress@example.co.

This gets imported into the Contact External ID field just fine.  But when importing the Contribution, the process truncates off the trailing period (.) (prefix-emailaddress@example.co).  This means that the External ID can't get matched up and importing can not be completed.

The first visual notice of this truncation is on Step 2 (Match Fields).

I have looked at the code but not quite able to find the point of failure yet.