I need two regular expressions, one to get ** at the beginning of a string, and one at the end.
For example:
This is a **text** test
With an expression obtain the ** of the beginning and with another those of the end. There may be many more repetitions.
I have tried the following:
(\*\*)
^(\*\*)
/\*\*/
^/\*\*/
Thanks a lot
This **would** be a good **text** to do some **testing**
It should mark all the words that contain ** at the beginning. And with the other you should mark all the ones that end with **
To match ** just before a word use:
\B\*\*\b
\B - is inverse of \b. It matches where \b doesn't\b - asserts position at a word boundary i.e. (^\w|\w$|\W\w|\w\W)And to match ** just after a word use:
\b\*\*\B
if I understand correctly:
\*\*\w and \w\*\* (works in editpadlite at least) or \*\*(?=[a-zA-Z$\r]) and (?<=[a-zA-Z\r^])(\*\*)