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Bug with bold italics underline and strikethrough

fdrake March 06, 2018 at 12:29 1075 views 2 comments
[b oop]A[i oop]B[s oop]C[u oop]D[/u oop]E[/s oop]F[/i oop]G[/b oop]

There's a bug in the parser, something surrounded by square braces which begins with b, i, u, s will be interpreted as the corresponding to bold/italic/underline/strikethrough tags. Thus the remainder of the text in the square bracket will not be part of the post output. First line of this post demonstrates the bug. Mods/admins can view it through post edit if required.

Work arounds:

  • Don't use square brackets. Use () {} instead.
  • Don't make the first character of a square bracket b,i,s or u.


For non-mods, the first line is below, but remove all ".".
[.b oop]A[.i oop]B[.s oop]C[.u oop]D[./u oop]E[./s oop]F[./i oop]G[./b oop]


Comments (2)

Jamal March 06, 2018 at 15:49 #159371
Well spotted. Not such a big problem, I wouldn't think (how did you uncover it?). We don't have direct access to the code to implement a fix, and there are several things that would take priority, but I guess I could mention it next time I send the devs a list of feature requests.
fdrake March 06, 2018 at 15:55 #159375
Reply to jamalrob

@Sam26 found it in one of his posts. I pissed about with it for a while and replicated/generalised it.

Thanks to Sam26 for clocking it.