Match text between asterisks - Regular Expression Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 38453

at January 3, 2011 12:47 by inko9nito

Initial Code

(\*)+([^.*?$]+)+(\*)

Initial URL

http://rubular.com/r/73UNIqgDuO

Initial Description

Matches text between each pair of asterisks (see URL above for demo) 


  
  
**Example:**

Make text between asterisks bold, like in Textile (in Ruby):

`test.gsub(/(\*)+([^.*?$]+)+(\*)/, '<strong>\\2</strong>')`

Initial Title

Match text between asterisks

Initial Tags

regex, replace, ruby

Initial Language

Regular Expression

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