From 8ce6dce8725f84096aebcf1a4063eaeee754b92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Paul=20H=C3=A4nsch?= <paul@plutz.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:32:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix: do not accidentally strip white spaces from code
 spans

---
 markdown.awk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/markdown.awk b/markdown.awk
index a50f7a2..3fa248d 100755
--- 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 ) )
-- 
2.39.2