underscores in urls

[Angie Ahl]

This is more for John G, sorry if it makes no sense to those that don't 
speak regex ;)

haven't looked at the MD code for a while now but couldn't this be 
fixed by using \b before and after the _

ie _.*?_  becomes \b_.*?_\b

I just love word boundaries, they almost always do exactly what I want.

HTH

Angie

On 14 Mar 2005, at 22:49, david scotson wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:16:45 -0500, Lou Quillio <public at quillio.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> This good advice notwithstanding, MD shouldn't be reaching into
>> attribute values, far less trying to mark them up.
>
> I don't think it is. The emphasis is being added to text version of
> the URL within the `a` tags, not within the `href` attribute. The
> exact same effect would be seen if Markdown processed the URL as
> simple text.
>
> So if you mentioned the URL
> http://www.asmp.org/membersarea/newswatch01_18_05.php in your text,
> even as simple unlinked text, it will get mangled unless escaped, as
> would any other random string that accidentally triggers the Markdown
> syntax.
>
> regards,
>
> dave
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