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Created May 5, 2011 23:16
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var _DoItalicsAndBold = function (text) {
// <strong> must go first:
text = text.replace(/(\*\*|__)(?=\S)([^\r]*?\S[*_]*)\1/g, "<strong>$2</strong>");
text = text.replace(/(\w)_(\w)/g, "$1~E95E$2"); // ** GFM ** "~E95E" == escaped "_"
text = text.replace(/(\*|_)(?=\S)([^\r]*?\S)\1/g, "<em>$2</em>");
return text;
};
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