Please help with whitespace issue on a Macro

Question

The code below (finally) worked for the hidden email challenge.  Please tell me how to do this without putting everything on one line to avoid the jinja whitespace issue.
```jinja
{% macro hide_email(user) %}
  {{ user.email.split('@')[0][0] }}{% for c in user.email.split('@')[0][1:] %}*{% endfor %}@{{ user.email.split('@')[1] }}
{% endmacro %}
```

Chris Freeman · Accepted Answer

Adding a hyphen - inside of the jinja2 braces will strip whitespace between them. 
There would be no added whitespace between the closing -%} and the next opening {%-
As mentioned in this StackOverflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/36871283/2088339):
Change your loop to strip white spaces from the top AND bottom of the output (notice extra "-" at the for loop close):
jinja 
     {% for key, value in querystring.items() -%}
          {{ key }}: '{{ value }}'
     {%- endfor %}

Docs: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#whitespace-control

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Please help with whitespace issue on a Macro

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