On 2004-12-15 11:16 AM, Andy Wardley wrote:
Len Weisberg wrote:
>> What I'm looking for is a flavor of a "chomp" option, somewhat
>> analogous to how CHOMP_COLLAPSE targets the specific needs of HTML.
Sounds reasonable. Perhaps in addition to:
CHOMP => CHOMP_NONE (0)
CHOMP => CHOMP_REMOVE (1)
CHOMP => CHOMP_COLLAPSE (2)
we could also allow CHOMP to be set to any other value to indicate what
character(s) you want the whitespace collapsed to. e.g.
CHOMP => "\n"
In TT3 there is a new chomp flag '=' to indicate the CHOMP_COLLAPSE
behaviour, in addition to '-' which does CHOMP_REMOVE. So with POST_CHOMP
set to "\n", you could do this:
[% blah =%] # to collapse to a newline
[% blah %]
and/or this:
[% blah -%] # to remove newline and all whitespace
[% blah %]
Sounds like the right idea. Some questions:
- Would it be possible for this to preserve indentation?
Ie preserve leading white space on a line that is not entirely
white-space ?
Maybe the rule would be to replace with a single "\n",
all white space up to and including "\n".
Is this getting too complicated?
- If the chomp option were made extensible, seems to me that the
corresponding chomp flag would need to be extensible also.
- (I'd suggest that just setting CHOMP to a string or regexp may be
a bit ambiguous, but I suppose you were just using that as an
illustration.)
Thanks,
-Len
A
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