Text Parsing - My Parser Skipping commands
- by The.Anti.9
I'm trying to parse text-formatting. I want to mark inline code, much like SO does, with backticks (`). The rule is supposed to be that if you want to use a backtick inside of an inline code element, You should use double backticks around the inline code.
like this:
`` mark inline code with backticks ( ` ) ``
My parser seems to skip over the double backticks completely for some reason. Heres the code for the function that does the inline code parsing:
private string ParseInlineCode(string input)
{
for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
{
if (input[i] == '`' && input[i - 1] != '\\')
{
if (input[i + 1] == '`')
{
string str = ReadToCharacter('`', i + 2, input);
while (input[i + str.Length + 2] != '`')
{
str += ReadToCharacter('`', i + str.Length + 3, input);
}
string tbr = "``" + str + "``";
str = str.Replace("&", "&");
str = str.Replace("<", "<");
str = str.Replace(">", ">");
input = input.Replace(tbr, "<code>" + str + "</code>");
i += str.Length + 13;
}
else
{
string str = ReadToCharacter('`', i + 1, input);
input = input.Replace("`" + str + "`", "<code>" + str + "</code>");
i += str.Length + 13;
}
}
}
return input;
}
If I use single backticks around something, it wraps it in the <code> tags correctly.
