Index: Smarty_Compiler.class.php
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--- Smarty_Compiler.class.php	(revision 2772)
+++ Smarty_Compiler.class.php	(working copy)
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
         }
 
         /* fetch all special blocks */
-        $search = "~{$ldq}\*(.*?)\*{$rdq}|{$ldq}\s*literal\s*{$rdq}(.*?){$ldq}\s*/literal\s*{$rdq}|{$ldq}\s*php\s*{$rdq}(.*?){$ldq}\s*/php\s*{$rdq}~s";
+        $search = "~{$ldq}\*(.*?)\*{$rdq}|{$ldq}literal\s*{$rdq}(.*?){$ldq}/literal\s*{$rdq}|{$ldq}php\s*{$rdq}(.*?){$ldq}/php\s*{$rdq}~s";
 
         preg_match_all($search, $source_content, $match,  PREG_SET_ORDER);
         $this->_folded_blocks = $match;
@@ -270,10 +270,10 @@
                                        , $source_content);
 
         /* Gather all template tags. */
-        preg_match_all("~{$ldq}\s*(.*?)\s*{$rdq}~s", $source_content, $_match);
+        preg_match_all("~{$ldq}(\S.*?)\s*{$rdq}~s", $source_content, $_match);
         $template_tags = $_match[1];
         /* Split content by template tags to obtain non-template content. */
-        $text_blocks = preg_split("~{$ldq}.*?{$rdq}~s", $source_content);
+        $text_blocks = preg_split("~{$ldq}\S.*?{$rdq}~s", $source_content);
 
         /* loop through text blocks */
         for ($curr_tb = 0, $for_max = count($text_blocks); $curr_tb < $for_max; $curr_tb++) {