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by JadeNB 2135 days ago
> Oddly, this results in a non-italicized asterisk in the output, contrary to reports in earlier comments that the resulting asterisk would be in italics. There is, however, a zero-length italicized string right before the asterisk in the HTML:

> "Stocks rose today by <i></i>* percent".

Sounds like the matching is something like

    /\<\*.*\*/
or maybe

    /\<\*[^*]*\*/
rather than

    /\<\*.+*/