Trailing slash causing problem with GET variables

I had a problem and I found a solution that I wanted to share in case anyone else experienced the same problem. I have paginated pages that need to access a GET variable and Simple Pagination was adding a trailing slash which was messing up the GET variable. For anyone else who might run into this, go into simple-pagination.php and change line 781 to this:

$this->base = trailingslashit( remove_query_arg( ‘s’, strtok(get_pagenum_link( 1 ), ‘?’) ) ) . $wp_rewrite->pagination_base . ‘/%#%/’.rtrim(str_replace(‘%2F’,”,substr(get_pagenum_link( 1 ),strlen(strtok(get_pagenum_link( 1 ), ‘?’)))),’/’);

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