Re: [Templates] Chomping without joining lines

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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 %]


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