bugfix: do not accidentally strip white spaces from code spans

diff --git a/markdown.awk b/markdown.awk
index a50f7a2253cf0b3ca52798d819380602e454fcd1..3fa248d25f2877fdc0e6f7eab9a5642635407d75 100755 (executable)
--- a/markdown.awk
+++ b/markdown.awk
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ function inline( line, LOCAL, len, code, href, guard ) {
       code = substr( line, len + 1, match( substr(line, len + 1), guard ) - 1)
       len = 2 * length(guard) + length(code)
       #  strip single surrounding white spaces
-      code = gensub( / (.*) /, "\\1", "1" , code)
+      code = gensub( /^ | $/, "", "g" , code)
       #  escape HTML within code span
       gsub( /&/, "\\&amp;", code ); gsub( /</, "\\&lt;", code ); gsub( />/, "\\&gt;", code );
       return "<code>" code "</code>" inline( substr( line, len + 1 ) )