On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:41 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote:

>
> For some reason, the output in /etc/foo.conf will be '10GB' on its own
>> line, instead of 'file_size: 10GB'. Almost as if there is a funny character
>> in there?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>
> Maybe there's a funny character in there.  Seriously.
>
> Especially if you have a mixture of Windows and Unix, you might
> accidentally end up with carriage return characters (ASCII 0x0D) in some of
> your text files on the Unix side.  Different Unix editors, viewers, and
> utilities may handle that situation differently.
>
> Examine both your template and your data file for unexpected characters.
> Many Unix text editors have modes in which they will display such
> characters to you (and thus allow you to edit them out).  To just see
> whether there are any, you could try listing the files via 'cat
> --show-nonprinting'
>

Thanks John for replying. Odd stuff but just before this line, I had
another <%= ... %> block and replacing %> with -%> on the previous block
seems to have done the trick.

- Gonzalo

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