Space required before comment start

[erik-alm]

The wiki code:

test/*test*/test

test /*test*/test

Renders as:

test/*test*/test

testtest

I.e. a space is required in front of the initial /* for the commenting out to start.

Other combinations with more spaces seem to work as expected.

[erik-alm]

I'm guessing this behavior might be in order to avoid problems with italics and bold in combination, however it needs to take care of the problem at the end comment tag as well:

The following text:

Text.

/*

Commented out text. But //**Ooops we're using bold and italics**// Not good!

*/

Renders as:

 Text./ Not good!

*/ 

I expected:

Text.

I.e. not only do I don't get a new paragraph. But the italic-bold combination is not handled well within the comment.

Though it does not initiate a comment even though I write //** for italics-bold outside a comment, which is good.

I'm guessing the regex (at least the conceptual regex) needs to be along the line [^/]/*[^*] for the start and [^*]*/[^/] for the end, or similar, and probably it needs some escaping and might fail on other scenarios as well...

[erik-alm]

As I understand this regex, the space requirement is in order to avoid matching things like //**Italics and bold**//

Maybe look-behind assertions might be the solution?
https://www.phptutorial.net/php-tutorial/regex-lookbehind/