[pmwiki-users] Regex help (excluding spaces)

[Lars Eighner]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Eric Forgeot wrote:

>    Markup ('txt2tags_bold'     , 'directives', '/\*\*[^\s](.*?)[^\s]\*\*/' 
> , "'''$1'''");
>
> Now it almost works, **this and **this are not catched, but the bold parts 
> are not correct, the first and last letters are striped out, for example 
> **another** would become nothe (in bold). Do you know why, and how to correct 
> this?


Because the $1 stands for the first parenthesized part of the pattern.  The
first letter is swallowed by [^\s] which is NOT in the parentheses. 
Likewise the last letter which matches the [^\s] after the parentheses.

'/\*\*([^\s].*?[^\s])\*\*/' should fix the missing first and last letters,
but I am not vouching for the markup being bulletproof.

You know, there is ready-made markup for bold in single * and italic in
single / (these were conventions that some mail and newreaders once
understood) already in the sample config file.  You just have to uncomment
the lines in your real config.php (if you copied it from the sample).



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