nope

Works for me, no leading newlines

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  author  => { 830549 => { content => "haukex" } },
  created => "2019-05-28 16:28:57",
  data    => {
               field => {
                 doctext     => {
                                  content => "<p>More fun facts! I onc
+e wrote a script to search a word list for words that make valid rege
+xen which convert one valid word into another.</p> <c> \$ perl -le 'p
+rint bangs =~s engender' bands \$ perl -le 'print halved =~s avatar' 
+halted \$ perl -le 'print stove =~s evener' stone </c>",
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  title   => "Re^5: What does \$_ = qq~\"\$_\"~ do?",
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  updated => "2019-05-28 16:28:57",
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Not for me.

It would help if you showed your code.

Probably a version problem?

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

Not for me. It would help if you showed your code. Probably a version problem?

Eh?

print pp $twig->parse( $data)->simplify( normalise_space => 111 );
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