What is the difference between [% %] and [%- -%] in Template Toolkit?

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What is the difference between [% %] and [%- -%] in Template Toolkit?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '15 at 11:22

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The - automatically removes some whitespace from before/after the directive tag.

You can add - or + to the immediate start or end of a directive tag to control the whitespace chomping options. See the PRE_CHOMP and POST_CHOMP options for further details.

See Template::Manual::Config for good examples of the effects with and without pre and post chomping.

edited Mar 23 '15 at 11:22

Sinan Ünür

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answered Mar 23 '15 at 06:08

ysth

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And although it is not remotely related to chomping, I like to use [%- -%] because it aligns very nicely with 4-space tab expansion :-) – RET Mar 24 '15 at 06:33

What is the difference between [% %] and [%- -%] in Template Toolkit?

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