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You can use three asterisks in a row, surrounded by whitespace, to get a single asterisk like: "Stocks rose today by * percent". Oddly, this results in a non-i
by BeeOnRope 6y ago
You can use three asterisks in a row, surrounded by whitespace, to get a single asterisk like: "Stocks rose today by * percent".
Oddly, this results in a non-italicized asterisk in the output, contrary to reports in earlier comments that the resulting asterisk would be in italics. There is, however, a zero-length italicized string right before the asterisk in the HTML:
"Stocks rose today by <i></i>* percent".
- JadeNB 6y ago> Oddly, this results in a non-italicized asterisk in the output, contrary to reports in earlier comments that the resulting asterisk would be in italics. There is, however, a zero-length italicized string right before the asterisk in the HTML: > "Stocks rose today by <i></i>* percent". Sounds like the matching is something like /\<\*.*\*/ or maybe /\<\*[^*]*\*/ rather than /\<\*.+*/