inline/EmphStrongTrait.php
protected function parseEmphStrong($text)
	{
		$marker = $text[0];

		if (!isset($text[1])) {
			return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
		}

		if ($marker == $text[1]) { // strong
			// work around a PHP bug that crashes with a segfault on too much regex backtrack
			// check whether the end marker exists in the text
			// https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/issues/443
			// https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45735
			if (strpos($text, $marker . $marker, 2) === false) {
				return [['text', $text[0] . $text[1]], 2];
			}

			if ($marker === '*' && preg_match('/^[*]{2}((?>\\\\[*]|[^*]|[*][^*]*[*])+?)[*]{2}/s', $text, $matches) ||
				$marker === '_' && preg_match('/^__((?>\\\\_|[^_]|_[^_]*_)+?)__/us', $text, $matches)) {

				return [
					[
						'strong',
						$this->parseInline($matches[1]),
					],
					strlen($matches[0])
				];
			}
		} else { // emph
			// work around a PHP bug that crashes with a segfault on too much regex backtrack
			// check whether the end marker exists in the text
			// https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/issues/443
			// https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45735
			if (strpos($text, $marker, 1) === false) {
				return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
			}

			if ($marker === '*' && preg_match('/^[*]((?>\\\\[*]|[^*]|[*][*][^*]+?[*][*])+?)[*](?![*][^*])/s', $text, $matches) ||
				$marker === '_' && preg_match('/^_((?>\\\\_|[^_]|__[^_]*__)+?)_(?!_[^_])\b/us', $text, $matches)) {
				// if only a single whitespace or nothing is contained in an emphasis, do not consider it valid
				if ($matches[1] === '' || $matches[1] === ' ') {
					return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
				}
				return [
					[
						'emph',
						$this->parseInline($matches[1]),
					],
					strlen($matches[0])
				];
			}
		}
		return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
	}
protected function parseEmphStrong($text)
	{
		$marker = $text[0];

		if (!isset($text[1])) {
			return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
		}

		if ($marker == $text[1]) { // strong
			// work around a PHP bug that crashes with a segfault on too much regex backtrack
			// check whether the end marker exists in the text
			// https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/issues/443
			// https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45735
			if (strpos($text, $marker . $marker, 2) === false) {
				return [['text', $text[0] . $text[1]], 2];
			}

			if ($marker === '*' && preg_match('/^[*]{2}((?>\\\\[*]|[^*]|[*][^*]*[*])+?)[*]{2}/s', $text, $matches) ||
				$marker === '_' && preg_match('/^__((?>\\\\_|[^_]|_[^_]*_)+?)__/us', $text, $matches)) {

				return [
					[
						'strong',
						$this->parseInline($matches[1]),
					],
					strlen($matches[0])
				];
			}
		} else { // emph
			// work around a PHP bug that crashes with a segfault on too much regex backtrack
			// check whether the end marker exists in the text
			// https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/issues/443
			// https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45735
			if (strpos($text, $marker, 1) === false) {
				return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
			}

			if ($marker === '*' && preg_match('/^[*]((?>\\\\[*]|[^*]|[*][*][^*]+?[*][*])+?)[*](?![*][^*])/s', $text, $matches) ||
				$marker === '_' && preg_match('/^_((?>\\\\_|[^_]|__[^_]*__)+?)_(?!_[^_])\b/us', $text, $matches)) {
				// if only a single whitespace or nothing is contained in an emphasis, do not consider it valid
				if ($matches[1] === '' || $matches[1] === ' ') {
					return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
				}
				return [
					[
						'emph',
						$this->parseInline($matches[1]),
					],
					strlen($matches[0])
				];
			}
		}
		return [['text', $text[0]], 1];
	}
Parses emphasized and strong elements.
@marker _
@marker *