Smarty

[Midas]

The following code

{strip}
($test} - test
{/strip}

returns
"test- test"
as output ($test is assigned "test").

Thus, the space between the variable and the hyphen seems to be considered as space at the beginning of the line and gets stripped, although {$test} is not empty and therefore the whitespace would be neither at the beginning of the line nor a multiple whitespace.

Is this a bug or a feature? ;-)
How else could I produce whitespaces after a variable within a strip area?
(Smarty 2.5.0)