ccstats 0.4.0

diff --git a/src/app.py b/src/app.py
index 5f58c91..b1a7832 100644
--- a/src/app.py
+++ b/src/app.py
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 def render_title(title):
-    return title.strip()
+    cleaned = title.strip()
+    return cleaned
@@ -10,3 +11,4 @@
 def render_subtitle(subtitle):
-    return subtitle.strip().lower()
+    cleaned = subtitle.strip()
+    return cleaned.lower()
     # stable footer