[pmwiki-users] PTV Confusion.

[Guillermo Calderon - INCO]

Stirling Westrup wrote:
> What are the legal characters in the name of a PTV? Looking at the regexes
> inside pmwiki.php (latest version), I see:
> 
> $PageTextVarPatterns = array(
>   'var:'        => '/^(:*\\s*(\\w[-\\w]*)\\s*:[ \\t]?)(.*)($)/m',
>   '(:var:...:)' => '/(\\(: *(\\w[-\\w]*) *:(?!\\))\\s?)(.*?)(:\\))/s'
>   );
> 
> Am I reading that wrong, or doesn't [-\\w] match any word character plus '-'?
> The reason I ask is that I can get simple PTV's to work, but not those that
> contain '-' in the names. I wish to have a bunch of entries like:
> 
> Cat-A:one
> Cat-B:two
> 

I think the problem is in the regexp for the markup {$:variable}:

in scripts/stdmarkup.php:

# {$var} substitutions
Markup('{$var}', '>$[phrase]',
   '/\\{(\\*|!?[-\\w.\\/\\x80-\\xff]*)(\\$:?\\w+)\\}/e',
                                            ^^^^
                                            here
                                       (only word characters)