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authorfiddlosopher <fiddlosopher@788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b>2009-11-29 19:31:58 +0000
committerfiddlosopher <fiddlosopher@788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b>2009-11-29 19:31:58 +0000
commit80a4a03df7cae09c73453322729653f9bffbdd75 (patch)
tree87485d988e42dce45a7a22e076fb96552b2032eb /src/Text
parent93d202cbd1d90949e3e744bf4b81ced7be2842b6 (diff)
downloadpandoc-80a4a03df7cae09c73453322729653f9bffbdd75.tar.gz
Markdown reader: treat 4 or more * or _ in a row as literal text.
(Instead of trying to parse as strong or emph, which leads to exponential performance problems.) git-svn-id: https://pandoc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1634 788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b
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-rw-r--r--src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs
index adc41238c..f4384d493 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs
@@ -824,6 +824,7 @@ inlineParsers = [ str
, endline
, code
, charRef
+ , (fourOrMore '*' <|> fourOrMore '_')
, strong
, emph
, note
@@ -921,6 +922,12 @@ mathInline = try $ do
notFollowedBy digit
return $ intercalate " " words'
+-- to avoid performance problems, treat 4 or more _ or * in a row as a literal
+-- rather than attempting to parse for emph/strong
+fourOrMore :: Char -> GenParser Char st Inline
+fourOrMore c = try $ count 4 (char c) >> many (char c) >>= \s ->
+ return (Str $ replicate 4 c ++ s)
+
emph :: GenParser Char ParserState Inline
emph = ((enclosed (char '*') (notFollowedBy' strong >> char '*') inline) <|>
(enclosed (char '_') (notFollowedBy' strong >> char '_' >>