You can either use pre/post-chomping in your directives, as in:

[% FOREACH option = element.value %]
[%- option -%]
[% END %]
# this is equivalent to writing those three directives on a single lin
+e:
# [% FOREACH option = element.value %][% option %][% END %]

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or you can use global options when you create your new Template object if you want such a behaviour applied everywhere:

my $template = Template->new(
    {
        PRE_CHOMP    => 1,
        POST_CHOMP   => 1,
    }
);

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You can read more about those options in the Template::Manual::Config doc.

In reply to Re: how to chomp or trim extra characters like \n ,white spaces in text area using template toolkit by Fang
in thread how to chomp or trim extra characters like \n ,white spaces in text area using template toolkit by srins

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