Unexpected template parsing issue

Christopher Schultz <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:55:47 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.jakarta.velocity.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

All,

Velocity 1.7, Oracle JDK 1.7.0_25

I found something odd recently and was able to reduce it to this simple
test-case:

$foo##
$foo.bar##
$foo.bar.baz##

Expected output (with foo=null):

$foo$foo.bar$foo.bar.baz

Actual output:
$foo$foo.bar##
$foo.bar.baz##

Using {..} around the references makes this example work the way I had
expected. Also, adding spaced /before/ the ## at the end of the lines
makes the output look as I had expected.

Another data point:

$foo${foo.bar}##
$foo.bar.baz}##

(Note trailing } after "baz").

Yields:

$foo${foo.bar}$foo.bar.baz}

I've been using ## at the end of lines where I want to avoid a newline
in the output for a while... I just noticed this case recently. Is this
something that /should/ work the way I expect, or am I abusing Velocity
in this way?

Thanks,
-chris

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