Template syntax question

[Park Walker <pa...@anchorsilk.com>]

Hi,

I've be trying to get velocity to output a pair of "/" characters at the
beginning of a line without success. This is actually being done in
Velocity, but this seemed to be the best place to ask the question. I can't
find anything in the doc or archives. It seems that it's treating the string
as a comment regardless of how it's produced. I've tried the following:

foo
//
bar
 produces foo bar

#set($sep = "//")
foo
$sep
bar
 produces foo bar

#set($sep = "/")
foo
/$sep
 produces foo /$sep bar

#set($sep = "/")
foo
$sep/
 produces foo bar

#set($sep = "/")
foo
$sep$sep
bar
 produces foo /$sep bar

The problem I have is that SAP DB wants the // - at the beginning of a line
- as a statement separator.

Any thoughts?

Park

Re: Template syntax question

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net>]

Somethings wacked, as it works for me.  I can take the following
template :

--------
foo
//
bar
foo//bar
//foo//bar//
------

and the output is

--------
foo
//
bar
foo//bar
//foo//bar//
------


So lets start from the beginning - 

What version of velocity?
Any special encoding of the template?


geir

Park Walker wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've be trying to get velocity to output a pair of "/" characters at the
> beginning of a line without success. This is actually being done in
> Velocity, but this seemed to be the best place to ask the question. I can't
> find anything in the doc or archives. It seems that it's treating the string
> as a comment regardless of how it's produced. I've tried the following:
> 
> foo
> //
> bar
>  produces foo bar
> 
> #set($sep = "//")
> foo
> $sep
> bar
>  produces foo bar
> 
> #set($sep = "/")
> foo
> /$sep
>  produces foo /$sep bar
> 
> #set($sep = "/")
> foo
> $sep/
>  produces foo bar
> 
> #set($sep = "/")
> foo
> $sep$sep
> bar
>  produces foo /$sep bar
> 
> The problem I have is that SAP DB wants the // - at the beginning of a line
> - as a statement separator.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Park

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