text/template: provide a way to trim leading and trailing space between actions

Borrowing a suggestion from the issue listed below, we modify the lexer to
trim spaces at the beginning (end) of a block of text if the action immediately
before (after) is marked with a minus sign. To avoid parsing/lexing ambiguity,
we require an ASCII space between the minus sign and the rest of the action.
Thus:

	{{23 -}}
	<
	{{- 45}}

produces the output
	23<45

All the work is done in the lexer. The modification is invisible to the parser
or any outside package (except I guess for noticing some gaps in the input
if one tracks error positions). Thus it slips in without worry in text/template
and html/template both.

Fixes long-requested issue #9969.

Change-Id: I3774be650bfa6370cb993d0899aa669c211de7b2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14391
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/text/template/parse/parse_test.go b/src/text/template/parse/parse_test.go
index 200d50c194..28b5f7cb90 100644
--- a/src/text/template/parse/parse_test.go
+++ b/src/text/template/parse/parse_test.go
@@ -228,6 +228,13 @@ var parseTests = []parseTest{
 		`{{with .X}}"hello"{{end}}`},
 	{"with with else", "{{with .X}}hello{{else}}goodbye{{end}}", noError,
 		`{{with .X}}"hello"{{else}}"goodbye"{{end}}`},
+	// Trimming spaces.
+	{"trim left", "x \r\n\t{{- 3}}", noError, `"x"{{3}}`},
+	{"trim right", "{{3 -}}\n\n\ty", noError, `{{3}}"y"`},
+	{"trim left and right", "x \r\n\t{{- 3 -}}\n\n\ty", noError, `"x"{{3}}"y"`},
+	{"comment trim left", "x \r\n\t{{- /* hi */}}", noError, `"x"`},
+	{"comment trim right", "{{/* hi */ -}}\n\n\ty", noError, `"y"`},
+	{"comment trim left and right", "x \r\n\t{{- /* */ -}}\n\n\ty", noError, `"x""y"`},
 	// Errors.
 	{"unclosed action", "hello{{range", hasError, ""},
 	{"unmatched end", "{{end}}", hasError, ""},